Re: GNU Guix ported to powerp64-linux-gnu

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>]

dftxbs3e <dftxbs3e@free.fr> writes:

Awesome!  Do you use a raptor computer?

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html

> Hello!
>
> Finally it succeeded. Thanks to everyone who has answered my countless
> questions on the mailing list and IRC!
>
> GNU Hello - /gnu/store/98wc63drnc5iwkcclls91iz181mmiv7c-hello-2.10
> (natively built with: ./pre-inst-env guix build hello)
>
> I used Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64) as a base
> PowerPC 64-bit big endian system. (precisely IBM POWER9)
>
> source:
>
> https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix - commit
> f47e761a10675b05b07107035d5024618267a3ad (current master at time of writing)
>
> bootstrap binaries:
>
> https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix-bootstrap - commit
> b017c0459bc65a53203eb056998be8abd7778e4a (current master at time of
> writing) - currently it's unclear from which revision the bootstrap
> binaries come from, a rebuild of all the binaries from the latest ported
> guix's revision is pending.
>
> How to build bootstrap binaries:
>
> On a system where GNU Guix already works:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs
>
> Next steps are getting things to work on powerpc64le-linux-gnu (shouldnt
> be too hard now) then rebase everything onto core-updates!
>
> Leo
>
>

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Joshua Branson
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