Re: Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4

["Scott C. MacCallum" <smaccallum@protonmail.com>]

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Sounds great, Efraim. Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help with your efforts. I'm new to this, so I'll need tutorial on the basics.

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On Feb 13, 2020, 2:36 AM, Efraim Flashner < efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 06:49:59PM +0000, Scott C. MacCallum wrote: > From: Carlos Sánchez de La Lama > Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap-tarballs: Cross-compile for powerpc-linux-gnu. > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:38:17 +0100 > User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi! > > I finally found some time to clean-up my work. This patch is for > core-updates branch, and allows bootstrap tarball generation by > > guix build --target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs > > I think the best way to proceed is integrate this onto core-updates > (once reviewed & approved), then generate a bootstrap binaries on hydra, > making them available for download on the bootstrap binaries URL. At > that point I can update the rest of the powerpc-linux-gnu patches (which > use this binaries) with the correct hashes, and send them to the list. > > As Ludo suggested, I am also preparing a tutorial/blog on the porting > process. > > BR > > Carlos > > Does anyone know if Carlos ever produced a tutorial/blog post on how he did this? I'd like to port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4 for freedom/knowledge sake but the documentation that I've read, http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Porting.html#Porting and http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-the-Bootstrap-Binaries.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries has left me with more questions than answers. > > Thank you, > > Scott > scmguru - irc.freenode.net I reached out to Carlos a few years ago and he said he had moved on and was pretty sure he didn't have his code or bootstrap binaries anymore.o I've attached a few patches to this email, which is about where I am right now on working on the 32-bit PowerPC bootstrap. So far it looks promising. The change to bootstrap-guile I applied to master and the other 3 on core-updates, but I suspect they should all apply on top of master. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted

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