Re: Porting to mips64el

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm using 3.4 and ext3.  That error occurred because of these options:
>
> # CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
>
> I've been told that ext4 is broken.  So I disabled it and enabled ext3.

Good that you found out!

> Then I invoked 'nix-build -A stdenv -K /home/nixpkgs-github' and it
> succeeded.  (How can I check it?)

“nix-build -A stdenv ...” prints the store path of Nixpkgs ‘stdenv’,
which contains GCC, Coreutils, etc.  You can just quickly check that the
contents look reasonable.

> I'm going to build the bootstrap binaries.

Great!  Crossing fingers.  ;-)

> Oh, I've just noticed that I'm still using Nix 1.1.  Should I update to
> 1.3 and try after that?  Does it matter?

1.1 should be OK.

One you have the bootstrap binaries, you’ll be able to use guix-daemon,
which corresponds to Nix 1.3.

Ludo’.