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[core-updates] Merge wip-hurd |
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Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:48:05 +0100 |
Hello Guix'y supporters of the Hurd,
This is a follow-up to a discussion on guix-devel
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-03/msg00081.html to
keep track of merging recent work for the Hurd by Efraim and others
that started on the Guix Days @fosdem20
https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix @wip-hurd-bootstrap
The `wip-hurd' branch @savannah has now been reset* and now contains a
set of patches that allow for Hurd development, either by building
packages natively or by cross-building.
Most interesting here are the hurd bootstrap binaries and patches to get
through "commencement". Efraim built a first set of bootstrap binaries
but I found we at least need some minimal set of glibc patches
glibc-hurd-clock_t_centiseconds.patch
glibc-hurd-clock_gettime_monotonic.patch
glibc-hurd-signal-sa-siginfo.patch
which I added and so I built a new set. While this mostly works, we may
want to look at/include more patches from the Debian glibc delta
https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/tree/glibc-2.31/debian/patches/hurd-i386
...but how to choose?
This patch series may be especially interesting as I have been also
using a number of hacks to get to build `hello' natively, avoiding
failing/hanging tests here and there
HACK gnu: acl: Add patches for the Hurd, disable tests.
HACK gnu: gettext-minimal: Expect test-raise test to fail on the Hurd.
HACK gnu: check: Skip hanging tests on the Hurd.
HACK gnu: guile: Disable tests on Hurd.
HACK gnu: coreutils: Disable tests on Hurd.
I haven't re-evaluated the need for these yet after my last glibc
patches and I haven't included these on the wip-hurd branch; these live
on wip-hurd-system on my gitlab
https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix @wip-hurd-system
That's also where my scratchbook on the Hurd lives
https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-system/THE-HURD
As discussed on guix-devel, we need to build gnumach-headers and
hurd-headers from a tarball release. Initially I tried the latest
official releases but they are too old. So I have created unofficial
source tarballs for Gnumach and Hurd tarball by running `make dist' on
the a git checkout on the Debian Hurd and uploaded them here
http://lilypond.org/janneke/hurd
wip-hurd is branched off core-updates about two weeks ago; I will now
start with rebasing and re-evaluating on latest core-updates.
Greetings,
janneke
*) Everything from Manolis' old wip-hurd since been merged or ported to
the new wip-hurd.
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Re: bug#40006: [core-updates] Merge wip-hurd |
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Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:08:42 +0100 |
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Efraim Flashner writes:
>> Next up is to work towards getting a bootable guix image for the Hurd
>> and other porting work in the Debian VM.
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>> See:
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>> https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-system/THE-HURD
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>> but that's a whole other stage of effort, I'm tempted to close this bug
>> and open a new one (or two?) for that. WYDT?
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> There's bootstrap binaries now existing, I'd say that counts as merging
> in Hurd support.
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> Congrats!
Thank you => closing.
janneke
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