From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Bootstrap Tarballs for alpha-linux Targets Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:03:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87wosgqdxf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <07a565e9-2916-416c-b0b7-5d3b1b18a61f@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft8wU-0003Tv-9Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:03:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ft8wQ-0005nk-A5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:03:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <07a565e9-2916-416c-b0b7-5d3b1b18a61f@me.com> (Vincent Weisner's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:07:13 +0000 (GMT)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Vincent Weisner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Vincent Weisner skribis: > No additional patches were needed and no, I don't have any DEC Alpha hard= ware. OK. > If you rather not include an Alpha port, then why does the code state "al= pha-linux" in /gnu/packages/bootstrapping.scm? That=E2=80=99s because somebody else tried cross-compiling to Alpha some ti= me ago; it was Sergei Trofimovich, and IIRC Sergei did have Alpha hardware at the time. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.