Hi rennes! ren...@openmailbox.org skribis:
> Finally I was able to start the Hurd with the binaries generated with the > guix package manager. Woohoo! Does that mean you were able to run packages cross-compiled with Guix, or packages built natively with Guix? > At the moment the image of Hurd I have built it manually and does not yet > have any functionality like GuixSD / Linux. … or did you build a VM image of GNU/Hurd? > Next goal: > * Generate the image file in the style of guix. > ** For this I have noticed that it is required to compile qemu for the > architecture i586-pc-gnu, at the moment I could not compile qemu in Hurd. I > have tried to disable some quemu features that come by default; however, I > have not yet achieved it. Things like ‘guix system vm’ use QEMU because we need to start a VM because on GNU/Linux one needs to be root to create a file system, mount it, and populate it. However, on GNU/Hurd, file systems can be mounted without being root. So you could in fact skip QEMU altogether, though that’d require tweaking in the VM-generation code (in (gnu build vm), etc.). > Other pending things: > * Some packages fail during the compilation and testing phases. > * Other packages used by guix, such as lsof are not ported in Hurd yet. We could probably get rid the lsof dependency. What matters here is a Linuxish /proc. Anyway, congrats on this milestone! :-) Ludo’.
