On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > ng0 <n...@infotropique.org> writes: > > > It seems to me as if SLIM can be dropped once we > > have something else in place. Would you agree? > > It would be good to keep a display manager service that is lightweight > in terms of both resource usage, runtime-dependency closure, and > build-dependency closure. I'm not attached to SLiM, but I would not > consider the existence of a GDM service to be sufficient grounds for > removal of SLiM. > > Apart from the needs of those on older hardware, or those who wish to > build everything locally from source code, I'm not sure if we've ever > successfully built GDM on a non-Intel system. GDM depends on mozjs-17, > which I've never managed to build on mips64el-linux, and it fails on > armhf-linux too. Fixing mozjs on mips64el-linux is probably not > trivial, and yet I'm happily using SLiM on my Yeeloong, which is still > the only non-Intel GuixSD system as far as I know. >
It apparently built once on armhf¹. As far as getting it to build on mips64el, I got my patch for building it on aarch64 from opensuse² ¹ https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/mozjs-17.0.0.armhf-linux/all ² https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/mozjs17 -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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