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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: i586-gnu builds on ci.guix
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:49:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgcwt8wu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0yhi7kz.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 05 Nov 2022 19:23:24 +0100")


Hello,

> Alas Cuirass depends on Fibers, which is currently Linux-only¹, so we
> cannot {cross-,}build it for GNU/Hurd.  The good news is that
> ‘remote-worker.scm’ itself doesn’t seem to use Fibers.  So I wonder if
> we could arrange to build a stripped-down package that contains nothing
> but ‘cuirass-remote-worker’.  WDYT?

Yes, Fiber is not used much anymore, except for the web server.

> Cuirass also depends on Avahi, which is currently not buildable for
> GNU/Hurd due to libcap requiring on Linux-specific headers, and it seems
> to be a hard requirement².  Unfortunately ‘remote-worker.scm’ requires
> it.

The remote worker is able to discover the remote server using Avahi but
can also connect directly to the server using its IP address.  We could
definitely make the Avahi dependency optional.

Thanks,

Mathieu


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-12 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-03 15:51 Release progress, week 4 Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-05 18:23 ` i586-gnu builds on ci.guix Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-12 16:49   ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2022-11-17 14:57     ` Ludovic Courtès

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