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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:03:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu90vgsg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgiwsds8.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:47:51 -0800")

Hello,

In practice, apart from x86_64-linux which was bootstrapped on NixOS, we
always cross-compile to bootstrap new architectures:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Porting.html

That was the case for all the non-Intel arches and for GNU/Hurd.

Is that what you meant?

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-26 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-24  0:47 Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries? Chris Marusich
2017-11-26  9:03 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-11-26 22:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-08  2:04   ` Chris Marusich

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