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* Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4
@ 2020-02-12 18:49 Scott C. MacCallum
  2020-02-13  7:36 ` Efraim Flashner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Scott C. MacCallum @ 2020-02-12 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel@gnu.org

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From:	Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Subject:	Re: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap-tarballs: Cross-compile for powerpc-linux-gnu.
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:38:17 +0100
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)
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Hi!

I finally found some time to clean-up my work. This patch is for
core-updates branch, and allows bootstrap tarball generation by

guix build --target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs

I think the best way to proceed is integrate this onto core-updates
(once reviewed & approved), then generate a bootstrap binaries on hydra,
making them available for download on the bootstrap binaries URL. At
that point I can update the rest of the powerpc-linux-gnu patches (which
use this binaries) with the correct hashes, and send them to the list.

As Ludo suggested, I am also preparing a tutorial/blog on the porting
process.

BR

Carlos

Does anyone know if Carlos ever produced a tutorial/blog post on how he did this? I'd like to port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4 for freedom/knowledge sake but the documentation that I've read, http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Porting.html#Porting and http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-the-Bootstrap-Binaries.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries has left me with more questions than answers.

Thank you,

Scott
scmguru - irc.freenode.net

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* Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4
@ 2020-02-10 16:54 Scott C. MacCallum
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Scott C. MacCallum @ 2020-02-10 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  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 boostrap binaries for it¹² and to shove a reference to them into (gnu packages commencement) in the guix sources. I have a non-working copy here³ 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 under the recommended minimum of 2GB, but found it close enough for most tasks with Guix."

2GB, which I think will be enough to proceed.

"I suggest popping over to guix-devel also to talk about bootstrapping, there are some people working on bootstrapping 64-bit PPC who would also probably be able to help."

Will do. I'm sure I'll have plenty more questions to ask. :)

Scott
scmguru - irc.freenode.net

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* Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4
@ 2020-02-08 18:00 Scott C. MacCallum via
  2020-02-09  7:20 ` Efraim Flashner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Scott C. MacCallum via @ 2020-02-08 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix

Greetings,

I'd like to port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4. I understand that this is likely never to be an offically supported architecture, but I'd like to learn the process for freedom and knowledge sake. I have a few Intel-based computers that could aid me in this process. Could someone knowledgeable in such things point me in the right direction?

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