Re: Porting to mips64el

[Nikita Karetnikov]

>  "--disable-shared" "LDFLAGS=-static"

Bash doesn't have '--disable-shared'.  I used these commands:

# export LDFLAGS=-static
# ./configure --without-bash-malloc \
              --disable-readline \
              --disable-history \
              --disable-help-builtin \
              --disable-progcomp \
              --disable-net-redirections \
              --disable-nls

There were some errors during 'make':

./builtins/libbuiltins.a(enable.o): In function `dyn_load_builtin':
/home/bash/bash-4.2/builtins/./enable.def:307: warning: Using 'dlopen' in 
statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from 
the glibc version used for linking
./lib/tilde/libtilde.a(tilde.o): In function `tilde_expand_word':
/home/bash/bash-4.2/lib/tilde/tilde.c:374: warning: Using 'getpwnam' in 
statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from 
the glibc version used for linking
shell.o: In function `get_current_user_info':
/home/bash/bash-4.2/shell.c:1641: warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically 
linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc 
version used for linking
/home/bash/bash-4.2/shell.c:1657: warning: Using 'endpwent' in statically 
linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc 
version used for linking

I installed Bash and replaced '/bin/sh'.

Then I adjusted '/usr/local/etc/nix/nix.conf':

build-users-group = nixbld
build-use-chroot = true
build-chroot-dirs = /dev /proc /bin

And ran the following command:

# ./pre-inst-env guix-build -K                \
      -e '(@ (gnu packages make-bootstrap) %bootstrap-tarballs)'  \
      --system=mips64el-linux

Unfortunately, it failed:

starting phase `build'
`ARCH' set to `mips64el'
Makefile:484: 
/tmp/nix-build-xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv-0/linux-3.3.8/arch/mips64el/Makefile:
 No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 
`/tmp/nix-build-xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv-0/linux-3.3.8/arch/mips64el/Makefile'.
  Stop.
phase `build' failed after 1 seconds
builder for 
`/nix/store/xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv' 
failed; keeping build directory 
`/tmp/nix-build-xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv-0'
builder for 
`/nix/store/xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv' 
failed with exit code 1
@ build-failed 
/nix/store/xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv 
/nix/store/nxi3p21h7vgkra3dbbisafph0dimzsva-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8 1 builder 
for `/nix/store/xww122kbc08qcyaika8pf03x273rvph7-linux-libre-headers-3.3.8.drv' 
failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation 
`/nix/store/qsivfcrjlnsxrn5vs4xv3zsh4djbl9li-bootstrap-tarballs-0.drv': 1 
dependencies couldn't be built
error: build failed: build of 
`/nix/store/qsivfcrjlnsxrn5vs4xv3zsh4djbl9li-bootstrap-tarballs-0.drv' failed

I guess that I should adjust the recipe like this:

(setenv "ARCH"
                (cond ((string=? arch "i686")     "i386")
                          ((string=? arch "mips64el") "mips")
                          (else arch)))

(There is 'linux-3.3.8/arch/mips/Makefile'.)

Will this work?

By the way, my local repo is a bit outdated.  Should I update it?

Nikita

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