Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi rennes,

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rennes@openmailbox.org skribis:

>>> Finally I was able to start the Hurd with the binaries generated with the guix package manager.
>> 
>> Woohoo!  Does that mean you were able to run packages cross-compiled
>> with Guix, or packages built natively with Guix?
>> 
>
> the packages were built on top of Debian/Hurd. At this moment I am copying everything that is compiled into /gnu/store to the image, 
> and then create symbolic links so that grub, Mach and Hurd can locate the binaries.

Neat.

>>> At the moment the image of Hurd I have built it manually and does not yet have any functionality like GuixSD / Linux.
>> 
>> … or did you build a VM image of GNU/Hurd?
>> 
>
> Yes, I have built the VM image according to your notes [1].

Oh, awesome!  I can’t wait to fiddle with this image!

Please make sure to send us a recap of what needs to be done in Guix
proper to make this happen.  We’ll think about ways to incorporate those
changes.

Congrats!

Ludo’.

PS: guix-daemon no longer depends on ‘lsof’, but it still depends on /proc.