From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: General Question: What if Binary Building breaks? Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20160625173648.GA22624@jasmine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40377) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGrW5-0000zU-0B for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:37:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGrW0-0004bw-0U for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:37:11 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:54237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGrVy-0004bB-Pv for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:37:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: christoph vogelsberg Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 08:19:34PM +0200, christoph vogelsberg wrote: > Hello again GuixSD-ers > > thanks for the last fast response! Now I face another question due to: > > > > My question: is there an already elabored way, documentation and so > > > on, for this specific problem? > > > > The solution is to build the software from source to produce a binary > > that is compatible with GuixSD. Guix has a GNU Icecat package that > > may provide a good base for this. > > I actually tried installing the IceCat package but my laptop got hang. It > was heavily virtualizing so I looked up hardware requirements for > building Firefox. I learned that 8GiB RAM (and therefor 64bit system) are > required. So this makes this package unbuildable for me. > > Is there any solution for that case in general? I fear persons like me who > can't efford hardware like that need to wait until a prebuild is available. We do try to keep binary substitutes from our build farm available. They are availabe from the default URL if you have authorized substitutes as described in the manual, section 2.1 Binary Installation. Otherwise, we could look into methods to make the build process less expensive, as suggested by ng0.