[bug#51428] core-updates-frozen-batched-changes built and ready to merge

[Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

Hello Maxim,

Em sexta-feira, 29 de outubro de 2021, às 17:10:03 -03, Maxim Cournoyer 
escreveu:
> Hello Thiago,
> 
> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> writes:
> > Hello again,
> > 
> > Em quarta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2021, às 13:26:37 -03, Thiago Jung
> > 
> > Bauermann escreveu:
> >> Hello Maxim,
> >> 
> >> Em quarta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2021, às 12:37:21 -03, Maxim
> >> Cournoyer
> > 
> > escreveu:
> >> > I'm hoping that with the reduced Rust bootstrap chain that starts
> >> > with
> >> > 1.39 and uses newer components, it may finally be more accessible to
> >> > other architectures.
> >> 
> >> There’s an unmerged PR for mrustc adding support for ppc64 but I
> >> haven’t
> >> tried it:
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/pull/159[1]
> >> 
> >> Accessing the link now, I see that someone reported being able to
> >> bootstrap rustc 1.29 on powerpc64le-linux with it!  \o/
> >> 
> >> I’ll try it out within the next couple of days and send a patch if it
> >> works.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it doesn’t work. :-/  I even tried the workaround
> > mentioned in the pull request (i.e., reverting commit b9b23c5), but
> > mrustc terminates with signal 7 (SIGBUS).
> > 
> > I’ll dig some more.
> 
> OK! Note that it currently bootstraps from 1.39; it'd be nice to not
> have to return to 1.29 for powerpc64el.

Agreed. I just mentioned 1.29 because that’s what the person on the pull 
request mentioned that they used. I was trying with 1.39.

> In other news I've added a polkit-duktape package on the cufbc branch.
> Feel free to try it (with some transformation applied, or by hacking
> s/polkit/polkit-duktape/ manually in your checkout).
> 
> HTH!

Thank you. I’ll try it out.

> Thanks for experimenting with it.

Thank you for the cufbc branch!