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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains)
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>> I think there=E2=80=99s currently no easy way to cross build a full Guix=
SD
>> anyway, like =E2=80=98guix system build --target=3Dmips64el-linux-gnu=E2=
=80=99 (the
>> --target flag doesn=E2=80=99t exist yet).  Or did you experiment in this=
 area?

I'm operating under the assumption that when using the --target flag
packages aren't substituteable (since cross-compiling a package will
likely not yield the same result as natively compiling it) in which
case the --target flag would only be useful for either bootstrapping
or optimizing guixsd for an embedded system or something like that.