Hi Guix! When building a system image for the pinebook pro, the image either fails to build or fail to boot. This occurs when when using the pinebook-pro-barebones-raw-image defined in the Guix repository.
When --system=aarch64-linux is not passed, the image build fails when cross compiling packages. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix system image gnu/system/images/pinebook-pro.scm ... building /gnu/store/ibjl0n8d1ac107vvkvjgrlb74sxm2b0k-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8.drv... \ 'configure' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/ibjl0n8d1ac107vvkvjgrlb74sxm2b0k-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/ibjl0n8d1ac107vvkvjgrlb74sxm2b0k-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/ib/jl0n8d1ac107vvkvjgrlb74sxm2b0k-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8.drv.gz'. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- When --system=aarch64-linux is passed (enforcing QEMU builds for packages instead of attempting cross compilation), the image builds but the Pinebook Pro does not appear to detect it and will fall back on eMMC. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- guix system image gnu/system/images/pinebook-pro.scm --system=aarch64-linux --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Per the blog post on https://othacehe.org/distributing-guix-system-pinebook-pro-images.html, building a pinebook pro system image should be as simple as the first command. When package compilation errors occurs, the user should be able to fall back on the second command. Below is the tail of the log when cross compiling gawk-mesboot: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ... checking for function prototypes... yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... : checking for xgettext... no checking for msgmerge... no checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... Invalid configuration `aarch64-linux-gnu': machine `aarch64' not recognized configure: error: /gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash ./config.sub aarch64-linux-gnu failed error: in phase 'configure': uncaught exception: srfi-34 #<condition &invoke-error [program: "/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" arguments: ("./configure" "CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc" "CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" "SHELL=/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" "--prefix=/gnu/store/bl3aq7fnpyxq9w2a7bqa4zqgd8z88y8x-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8" "--enable-fast-install" "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "--host=aarch64-linux-gnu" "ac_cv_func_connect=no") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 152a5c0> phase `configure' failed after 30.6 seconds command "/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" "./configure" "CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc" "CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" "SHELL=/gnu/store/rb75igdc6daly1mz2ivz7rs8hd85imdz-gash-boot-0.3.0/bin/bash" "--prefix=/gnu/store/bl3aq7fnpyxq9w2a7bqa4zqgd8z88y8x-gawk-mesboot-3.1.8" "--enable-fast-install" "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "--host=aarch64-linux-gnu" "ac_cv_func_connect=no" failed with status 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.
