From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott C. MacCallum" Subject: Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:54:02 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott C. MacCallum" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j1CK3-00034u-Lb for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:54:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1CK2-0002ZV-6Q for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:54:11 -0500 Received: from mail-40135.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.135]:53703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1CK1-0002UC-MU for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:54:10 -0500 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: "help-guix@gnu.org" Cc: "efraim@flashner.co.il" "I personally have two G4 laptops and would love to have Guix as an almost-= supported architecture too." That's great! Knowing that someone else is interested is another motivating= factor for me to undertake this. "The standard way to add a new architecture to Guix is to cross build boost= rap binaries for it=C2=B9=C2=B2 and to shove a reference to them into (gnu = packages commencement) in the guix sources. I have a non-working copy here= =C2=B3 that I play with occasionally." Thank you for sharing. I will read each resource to wrap my head around the= process. "What are the specs of your laptop? I maxed out my ram to 1.5GB, which is u= nder the recommended minimum of 2GB, but found it close enough for most tas= ks with Guix." 2GB, which I think will be enough to proceed. "I suggest popping over to guix-devel also to talk about bootstrapping, the= re are some people working on bootstrapping 64-bit PPC who would also proba= bly be able to help." Will do. I'm sure I'll have plenty more questions to ask. :) Scott scmguru - irc.freenode.net