Re: Hurd bootstrap breaks guix building binutils-boot0@2.34

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Svante Signell writes:

Hi Svante,

> I did build the bootstrap binaries some time ago. They were corrupt.

Can you elaborate on that?  Do you know which packages/programs were
affected?

Ah, wait you mean:

> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00225.html

    I had to replace the following binaries in order to make
    ./pre-inst-env  guix build -K -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) gnu-make-
    boot0))' work:
    bash, cat, cp, gawk, grep, install, mv, rm, rmdir, tar, xz, cpp, guile, mkdir,

It seems these work for me.

For now it seems that the binaries I'm building from core-updates are
fine.

> Down-grading from guile-2.2 to guile-2.0 did not improve the situation.

Ah; yes I just found out as well :-)

> Now I have a project to cross-build Hurd from a GNU/Linux box: hurd-cross, using
> the latest versions of the gnumach, hurd, glibc, gcc, etc. The built Hurd boots
> and runs fine in a VM :) The project will soon be available on Savannah. From
> there I will again cross-build the bootstrap binaries for Hurd, in due time
> though. (Other packages, like ones not yet available natively, can also be
> cross-built. That's an interesting extension.)

Okay, that's a whole different route but starting from a working
situation can certainly help.  I'm going to try the Guix route some bit
more for now.

> See 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-08/msg00198.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00000.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00014.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00225.html
> for some of the efforts to make Guix work on GNU/Hurd.

Thanks for the pointers
janneke

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