On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 10:01:15AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Janneke!
> 
> While uploading the powerpc64le-linux tarballs, I noticed they use Guile
> 2.0, which reminded me of eef44fea17a735d2f4048a747d16af478d4b9dbc:
> 
>     Revert "gnu: guile-static-stripped: Update to 2.2."
>     
>     As discussed on IRC, keeping bootstrap Guile on 2.0 simplifies adding new
>     architectures and removes the need for parameterizing
>     gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm.
>     
>     This reverts commit 2acfe022a740f79b593348cc6362cc4ee8f33bb4.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static): Revert to guile-2.0.  Retain
>     build recipe.
>     * gnu/packages/patches/guile-relocatable.patch: Update for Guile 2.0.14.
> 
> Do you remember the reason for this change?
> 
> What’s surprising is that
> <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/i686-linux/20190815> does use
> 2.2.
> 

That wasn't me? (I apparently touch everything) I remember guile-2.2 for
the bootstrap had (likely) endianness ordering issues with PPC32, and it
was far simpler to revert back to guile-2.0 than to try to fix it.

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