Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

>> Something about the way in which we are searching for the patch is off,
>> but I don't have time just now to investigate.  Efraim, if you can
>> figure it out, that'd be nice, but I'll look into it more tomorrow.
>> It's probably something simple and related to commit 2712703.
>
> Leo told me about it yesterday and I pushed a second commit that fixed
> it. We needed to make sure the patch file was included as an input,
> that's why it got #f instead of a string. In any case, commit
> 710cfc330a7ed06934a193583b159fbdf07bf2fe takes care of it; it's the
> combination of 2712703 and the squash commit.
>
> I'm now running make guix-binary.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz and so far
> it's made it past the initial building stages, we're on to building the
> grafts now.

Thank you.  This fixed the patch-related problem for me, too.  I'm
currently running "make guix-binary.powerpc64le-linux.tar.xz", also, on
my Debian ppc64le machine.  We'll see how far it gets - fingers crossed!

-- 
Chris