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David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:

>> Now, in most cases, the tiny Guile derivations created via
>> =E2=80=98gexp->derivation=E2=80=99 et al. in GuixSD (e.g., the derivatio=
n that builds
>> the initrd) could use, say, an x86_64 Guile, even if building for
>> mips64el.  However, it would be difficult to take advantage of this
>> AFAICS.
>
> So maybe I am taking the wrong approach. If an hypothetical --target
> flag would exist, could it use natively built substitutes?

It could use substitutes for cross-compiled things, just like =E2=80=9Cguix
build coreutils --target=3Dmips64el-linux-gnu=E2=80=9D can use substitutes.

Ludo=E2=80=99.