From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "christoph vogelsberg" Subject: General Question: What if Binary Building breaks? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:19:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGW6w-0003hi-8m for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:45:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGVhb-0002Uv-SI for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:19:43 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:65335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGVhb-0002UK-Ie for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:19:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hello again GuixSD-ers thanks for the last fast response! Now I face another question due to: > > My question: is there an already elabored way, documentation and so > > on, for this specific problem? > > The solution is to build the software from source to produce a binary > that is compatible with GuixSD. Guix has a GNU Icecat package that > may provide a good base for this. I actually tried installing the IceCat package but my laptop got hang. It was heavily virtualizing so I looked up hardware requirements for building Firefox. I learned that 8GiB RAM (and therefor 64bit system) are required. So this makes this package unbuildable for me. Is there any solution for that case in general? I fear persons like me who can't efford hardware like that need to wait until a prebuild is available. Thanks in advance and thumbs up for your project! cvog