help with bootstrap binaries

help with bootstrap binaries

[Efraim Flashner]

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I have an ongoing project to finish the port of Guix to 32-bit PowerPC
and it looks like we're almost there. I ran into a snag with glibc-2.31
since it gave all sorts of problems on PPC but core-updates now has
2.32. Unfortunately the patch glibc-bootstrap-system.patch didn't apply
cleanly anymore so I updated it. It now applies but the 'system'
command/macro from guile errors out while building packages, basically
saying it can't find 'sh'.

I'm looking if anyone wants to help fix the patch for 2.32 so we can
continue using newer versions of glibc or see about downgrading glibc
for make-bootstrap to 2.30.


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Re: help with bootstrap binaries

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:36:22PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> I have an ongoing project to finish the port of Guix to 32-bit PowerPC
> and it looks like we're almost there. I ran into a snag with glibc-2.31
> since it gave all sorts of problems on PPC but core-updates now has
> 2.32. Unfortunately the patch glibc-bootstrap-system.patch didn't apply
> cleanly anymore so I updated it. It now applies but the 'system'
> command/macro from guile errors out while building packages, basically
> saying it can't find 'sh'.
> 
> I'm looking if anyone wants to help fix the patch for 2.32 so we can
> continue using newer versions of glibc or see about downgrading glibc
> for make-bootstrap to 2.30.
> 

Good news! After looking at the changes in the code in glibc I believe I
found a bug and Marius helped me on IRC work through some of the
options. It looks like a variable was mis-initialized as -1, causing
that branch of the code to always fail. I've pushed an update to the
glibc-bootstrap-system.patch on core-updates that produces working
bootstrap binaries.


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