Hi Danny,

> Sounds good.  I've successfully applied the patch to a clean checkout of
> Guix at the current master branch head
> (c7cf43ddec9be5389d3a2623d6414d9b55354f64).  I've kicked off a build on
> an x86_64-linux system (Guix running on a Debian foreign distro) via:
>
>   guix environment --pure guix
>   # And then, in the pure environment:
>   ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make -j 1 && echo
> built guix > /tmp/mylog && time ./pre-inst-env guix build --max-jobs=1
> --cores=1 -K -s i686-linux rust@1.19.0
>
> It's gonna take a long time to finish.  I'll let you know how it goes!

The build failed because it ran out of memory.  This machine won't work.
I've started the build on another machine with more memory, and I'll let
you know how it goes.

-- 
Chris