Re: `guix build hello' now succeeds on the Hurd

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

Congratulations!!

On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 11:15 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good
> 
>     janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload
>     /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10
>     janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-
> hello-2.10/bin/hello
>     Hello, world!
> 
> \o/
> 
> Current development lives on the `wip-hurd-bootstrap' branch @ my
> personal gitlab
> 
>     https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix #wip-hurd-bootstrap
> 
> It has some 20 odd patches.  I chose to create workarounds to "get early
> success" rather than doing everything right.  While I worked on forward
> porting glibc patches, I only took the minimal set that I needed.  Also,
> I reverted to make 4.1 instead of debugging why make 4.3 fails (for
> now).
> 
> Most controversial/problematic is the need to use fairly recent gnumach
> and hurd sources.  Somehow the bootstrap in commencement currently tries
> to usee GIT versions of those (gnumach-headers-boot0,
> hurd-headers-boot0), creating a bootstrap dependency loop.  I tried
> building from release tarballs with patches but in the end I "simply"
> ran `make dist' for gnumach and hurd and use those source tarballs.
> 
> I have built bootstrap tarballs
> 
>     ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs
> 
> and put them up at
> 
>     http://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/i586-gnu/20200304/
> 
> Gnumach and Hurd tarball sources are here
> 
>     http://lilypond.org/janneke/hurd
> 
> I have included my setup/install instructions in Git
> 
>     https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-bootstrap/THE-HURD
> 
> What could be the next step?  We have a stale branch `wip-hurd' at
> savannah by Manolis and Efraim's recent wip-hurd-bootstrap (which I
> started from, but rewrote).
> 
> Shall I push this to savannah as `wip-hurd' (possibly save wip-hurd->
> `wip-hurd-old?); I could also rewrite wip-hurd-bootstrap?
> 
> When we mave a branch I'd like to open a bug report on merging it,
> and setting up build hosts (as discussed with Ricardo on IRC).
> 
> Greetings,
> janneke
>