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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> That said, I am curious about something.  If I want to make a
> cross-compiler available for the purpose of hacking around on some code
> and cross-compiling it, is there an equivalent to "guix package -i
> gcc-toolchain" which will give me a cross-compilation toolchain?  My
> feeling was that Guix can create cross-compilation toolchains on demand,
> but there is no UI exposed for making it available via a guix command,
> since people are encouraged to just ask for the cross-built product.

Both avr-toolchain and arm-none-eabi-toolchain-6 (among others) are
examples of cross toolchains that can be installed on one type of system
to build binaries for another architecture.

--
Ricardo