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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imkfySB_c-USi+aSz2H3N8j-QxHvGVEom7CZTfzS-WSzkw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2ewuj9e.fsf@gnu.org>

> Now, in most cases, the tiny Guile derivations created via
> ‘gexp->derivation’ et al. in GuixSD (e.g., the derivation that builds
> the initrd) could use, say, an x86_64 Guile, even if building for
> mips64el.  However, it would be difficult to take advantage of this
> AFAICS.

So maybe I am taking the wrong approach. If an hypothetical --target
flag would exist, could it use natively built substitutes?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-01 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-31 16:15 Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains) David Craven
2016-08-31 20:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 22:01   ` David Craven
2016-08-31 22:13     ` David Craven
2016-09-01  8:17     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-01 10:11       ` David Craven [this message]
2016-09-01 11:16         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-01 11:59       ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-30 21:26 Paul Boddie
2016-08-31 20:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 21:49   ` Paul Boddie
2016-09-01  8:10     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-01 15:51       ` Paul Boddie
2016-09-01 19:43         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 18:52         ` David Craven
2016-09-03 12:56           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-03 12:59             ` David Craven
2016-09-03 21:18               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-03 21:27                 ` David Craven

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