From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Boddie Subject: Bootstrapping on a new platform Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 00:17:19 +0100 Message-ID: <201712030017.19982.paul@boddie.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHCB-0002en-UY for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:27:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHC8-0006K6-PH for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:27:43 -0500 Received: from mailrelay4.webfaction.com ([185.20.51.6]:44817) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHC8-0006JS-Ir for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:27:40 -0500 Received: from mailrelay4.webfaction.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay4.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4B9560400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay2.webfaction.com (mailrelay2.webfaction.com [185.20.50.247]) by mailrelay4.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E088960162 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay2.webfaction.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0764E414EC for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.webfaction.com (mail6.webfaction.com [31.170.123.134]) by mailrelay2.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02BFA401A3 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:17:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jeremy.localnet (host-37-191-180-103.lynet.no [37.191.180.103]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76BE16097467C for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:17:25 +0000 (UTC) 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: help-guix@gnu.org Hello, I finally got round to trying to build Guix again, this time doing a native build rather than a cross-build. However, I'm attempting this on an unsupported platform (mipsel), and it isn't clear what I need to do to make the bootstrap binaries and thus attempt a source build. What I've figured out so far is this: tar zxf guix-0.13.0.tar.gz cd guix-0.13.0 ./bootstrap ./configure --with-courage make make install This gets me the guix-daemon, but upon trying to do anything, I get the following: guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system 'mipsel- linux' I understand that I need some bootstrap binaries, and the bootstrapping documentation indicates that these can indeed be generated as follows: guix build --target=mipsel-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs But this just gives the same error. And I am actually running on mipsel-linux- gnu, so I suppose it might be different if I were try this on a supported system - i386-linux-gnu, for instance - and thus generate the binaries that way. Maybe I have just missed the part of the manual that talks about these source builds, but it really doesn't seem obvious to me. Another thing, which I've seen mentioned on this list is reproducible builds. Might it be possible to have architecture-independent source archives that reproducibly build the binaries? Sorry not to be able to figure this out for myself! Paul