From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Guix system cross-compile Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:51:00 +0100 Message-ID: <8736nyviuj.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87ef7kfk2v.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2bi3gi4.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1uMj-0006fQ-A8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:51:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1uMi-0002nm-Cd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:51:21 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1uMh-0002hW-O9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:51:20 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r2bi3gi4.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: Guix-devel , Mathieu Othacehe Alex Vong writes: > As a related question, I'm curious what's the difference between > "guix build --target ..." vs "guix build --system ..."? =E2=80=9C--target=E2=80=9D is for cross-compilation. =E2=80=9C--system=E2= =80=9D is for using a different persona (e.g. i686 on an x86_64 system). > Is it possible that one command results in build failure but the other > command doesn't? Yes. -- Ricardo