Vincent Legoll writes: > To Christopher Baines >> At least the main blocker for me is the lack of substitutes for the >> things that fail to build with QEMU. So maybe one or a few machines >> which were able to build those specific things would be sufficient to >> provide some substitutes. > > I still not have tried mips (arm*, powerpc* and even there I still do not have > gone very far, but only tried cross-compilation which has it own set > of problems). > > Can you elaborate a bit, compilation through qemu should be slow but > mostly work, > at least I hope. We should have a look at debian's arches MLs, there > are a lot of > efforts made to fix and upstream things, being done there. I forget if I've replied, but I tried building hello using QEMU, and this was the failure: qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped g++: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See for instructions. make[2]: *** [Makefile:1099: c-family/c-common.o] Error 4 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating cc1plugin-config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands /gnu/store/48y1i9jxilgvg4n0r0mwsvzgac9yvr20-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/bash ../../gcc-7.5.0/gcc/../move-if-change tmp-automata.c insn-automata.c echo timestamp > s-automata make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv-0/build/gcc' make[1]: *** [Makefile:4215: all-gcc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv-0/build' make: *** [Makefile:881: all] Error 2 command "make" "-j" "12" "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/nlw1v60wfzvf8hccfiyxaa7qq76cpxfh-glibc-bootstrap-0/lib -Wl,-dynamic-linker -Wl,/gnu/store/nlw1v60wfzvf8hccfiyxaa7qq76cpxfh-glibc-bootstrap-0/lib/ld.so.1" failed with status 2 builder for `/gnu/store/bfsginlm0wbkwxzy5a39j6kin562ay34-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/bfsginlm0wbkwxzy5a39j6kin562ay34-gcc-cross-boot0-7.5.0.drv failed