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Re: Status update+patches:Re: I managed to build guix natively on Debian


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Status update+patches:Re: I managed to build guix natively on Debian GNU/Hurd , what's next?
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 23:26:31 +0200
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Svante Signell <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 16:34 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
>> 
>> > How can I rebuild from scratch to watch the output on the console? 
>
> Seems to be to wipe out /gnu/store and /var/{guix,log}
>
>> This time bash crashed... Took a screen shot of the qemu console. I have to
>> replace all four:  bash  mkdir  tar  xz and put them into the .xz file too. 
>
> I have now replaced bin/guile in 
> guile-static-stripped-2.2.4-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz, 
> but guile or tar still crashes. However I came a little further this time
> though:
> successfully built 
> /gnu/store/3aqdqcnz63nnlwk61wimkcrdpbilwpvp-glibc-bootstrap-
> 0.drv
> building /gnu/store/sp2zksrcpvph48j9d93i902y098hpai4-make-4.2.1.tar.xz.drv...
> /gnu/store/alzim8hg6zqvs9s33frh7m9z211lryk3-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: 1:
> /gnu/store/alzim8hg6zqvs9s33frh7m9z211lryk3-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: 
> Syntax
> error: ";" unexpected
> /gnu/store/alzim8hg6zqvs9s33frh7m9z211lryk3-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: 1:
> /gnu/store/alzim8hg6zqvs9s33frh7m9z211lryk3-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: 
> Syntax
> error: ";" unexpected

What are the contents of 
/gnu/store/alzim8hg6zqvs9s33frh7m9z211lryk3-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar?

> The main problem seem to be the cross-built binaries. Would it be possible to
> build these static binaries natively, maybe even using guix or in som other
> way??

We should figure out what’s wrong with them and then adjust the way
these binaries are built.  It would not be useful to take binaries from
elsewhere because we want to be able to reproduce the build automatically.

-- 
Ricardo




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