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bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-se
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error |
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Sun, 06 Jan 2019 04:46:09 +0100 |
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Hi swedebugia,
>>An i686 machine cannot run and build software for x86_64. You would
>>need to set up offloading to do that, or use
>>‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’.
[…]
> OK. Would it be OK to state this somewhere in the manual or am I the
> only on trying to upgrade from 32->64 bit?
I'd prefer not to add this to the manual as it is not particular to
Guix. x86_64 is the outlier here, as it has a i686 persona. Generally,
you cannot build software for a different architecture without a cross
toolchain (not applicable for Guix) or emulation (e.g. via
qemu-binfmt-service-type).
--
Ricardo