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01/01: doc: Document how to enable qemu binfmt service and how to use it. |
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Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:57:23 -0500 (EST) |
dannym pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 89339a35bd8610ec585da36f3da6ddf116c3fe89
Author: Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Feb 3 16:29:00 2019 +0100
doc: Document how to enable qemu binfmt service and how to use it.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Document how to enable qemu
binfmt service and how to use it.
Co-authored-by: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
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doc/contributing.texi | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index d579a39..9459c48 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -818,6 +818,33 @@ Make sure the package builds on your platform, using
@code{guix build
@var{package}}.
@item
+We recommend you also try building the package on other supported
+platforms. As you may not have access to actual hardware platforms, we
+recommend using the @code{qemu-binfmt-service-type} to emulate them. In
+order to enable it, add the following service to the list of services in
+your @code{operating-system} configuration:
+
address@hidden
+(service qemu-binfmt-service-type
+ (qemu-binfmt-configuration
+ (platforms (lookup-qemu-platforms "arm" "aarch64" "ppc" "mips64el"))
+ (guix-support? #t)))
address@hidden example
+
+Then reconfigure your system.
+
+You can then build packages for different platforms by specifying the
address@hidden option. For example, to build the "hello" package for
+the armhf, aarch64, powerpc, or mips64 architectures, you would run the
+following commands, respectively:
address@hidden
+guix build --system=armhf-linux --rounds=2 hello
+guix build --system=aarch64-linux --rounds=2 hello
+guix build --system=powerpc-linux --rounds=2 hello
+guix build --system=mips64el-linux --rounds=2 hello
address@hidden example
+
address@hidden
@cindex bundling
Make sure the package does not use bundled copies of software already
available as separate packages.