On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:27:37PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Efraim,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > I'm testing %bootstrap-guile from bootstrap.scm and I'm getting a
> > segfault when runing guile --version. I've attached an strace of the
> > process.
> 
> To be clear, I believe this is for a *cross-compiled* Guile, right?

That's right, %bootstrap-guile is extracted from $(guix build
--target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs)

> 
> The natively-built binary on x86_64-linux works fine:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ unshare -mrf chroot $(guix build guile-static-stripped) ./bin/guile --version
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread
> GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.4
> Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> $ guix describe
> Generacio 61	Feb 12 2019 11:14:38	(nuna)
>   guix c86b5f1
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: c86b5f1b9bdfdd478ba15804f9343feb8d9c019b
> $ uname -m
> x86_64
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Since I saw a build failure similar to the one you mention when
> cross-building for GNU/Hurd, I’m tempted to think this has to do with
> cross-compilation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I saw you mentioned that on IRC.

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