From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: The current state of Aarch64 on Guix Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:27:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20170702142750.GA15315@jasmine.lan> References: <20170629183758.GD1734@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRfru-0007ol-A8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 10:28:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRfrp-0007XH-Ca for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 10:28:58 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:38125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRfro-0007Vo-Ss for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 10:28:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170629183758.GD1734@macbook42.flashner.co.il> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:37:58PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > Currently Aarch64 support in guix is pretty good, as long as you don't > mind compiling for yourself :). Potential downfalls are too little RAM > (I limited my boards to 2GB minimum) and using an SD card. For building > packages I made sure that between RAM and swap I have at least 6 GB, > which I don't recall giving me any issues. >=20 > There were problems with actually building the guix binary in time for > the 0.13 release, it has since been fixed and I have an unoffical > aarch64 binary install tarball at flashner.co.il/~efraim/. Also there is > the signing key for my odroid running guix-publish. The url for the > guix-publish server is git.flashner.co.il:8181. Awesome! I'm looking forward to getting some aarch64 hardware for Guix. > General problem points/packages: [...] > * qt-4: does not build, I've hardly put any time into it. > * gnucash: The ancient webkit version they use didn't build on aarch64, Qt 4 and that old version of webkit are unmaintained, full of bugs, and we will probably have to remove them soon, regardless of whether or not something depends on them. So I don't think you should worry about trying to build them for aarch64. --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAllZAuUACgkQJkb6MLrK fwiVaw//UYHVmbI9PKQlJIDt3PpQKvcnxOy/3xsRcmUCLGfzQLRf4h3TjW8Vt9Un LE6X/q+AJxfUKIHNG/Ot2YqIquVZVTJ8P/HMAlS+n4yyajqX1848OhDaN4bNnlYK he5sVYyQjhxtmxHBE/rQzjfoFcJ0VOKTHcScqF6bquThvh5MTjpOLB3fEfrSI5IO 9V/HTpGQosUMpkMa4UAf4M4/3vOcxj1/BpwE5z7xtxV4gXVvjadcDMftFAL+Lvcc A52VzI869ynFBub1maV3InKQfNEyCCXlDCUXjSkxjZDOm5ckkN6yzsN6R3PIKroY zkWUt98bVhgjvPwVVlL9BMmdh62+cWtXHjAO16otws861FkcmDoYuK0TAjNOVUhk MOXZPHR6N2pidF2f3LegOUk9pcNrDSVhaC4vi06ZfyxMvs14DtB9QpNGHuf8cAtN 28+Ekzxxu7R4LcF/gQSgiCtz0/S1ZiWd4EJNDL3vcYV+qHgHlj/LDyqfomPbpj4f Xw+PQuTyVYkZawHee5Gh473P4dqe9Ebb2MsjCXnR+YSJtP0lVnRU8cr7UnOxO2C5 UtnLSvQu/1pvNWZny6Kvj1M+rclsfPRCiOtionQ7frkNT4pjcCakE4T8UGWbbkIU r1IUxDk/h6s+9qtXNu/xE0AU2UAfaY2nvyRVajBOhgKHL8xHydA= =KgGZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--