Hi, On Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:46:43 +0200 Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> wrote:
> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (native-inputs
> > `(,@(if (not (string-prefix? "i686" (%current-system)))
> > `(("cross-gcc" ,(cross-gcc "i686-unknown-linux-gnu"))
> > ("cross-binutils" ,(cross-binutils "i686-unknown-linux-gnu")))
> > '())))
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > that uses the current gcc if you're already building on an i686 system,
> > or define and use a cross-gcc targeting i686 systems otherwise.
>
> This snippet might make a lot of sense to seasoned schemers/guixfolk,
Basically just ignore the birdshit characters to understand what it does :)
The first unquote is to evaluate (%current-system) at the toplevel which is
what interprets the package definitions in the first place.
"`(,@" is a no-op. Not sure why it's written like that.
> `(("cross-gcc" ,(cross-gcc "i686-unknown-linux-gnu"))
> ("cross-binutils" ,(cross-binutils "i686-unknown-linux-gnu")))
is like we always write inputs, but it's calling the "cross-gcc" function in the
toplevel in order to get the package to use.
> with the multiple levels of (un)quoting and what not. It does not seem
> like what somebody with little experience in either would think of by
> themselves.
>
> Would it make sense to have a section/stub in the cookbook about cross
> compilation?
I don't think that cross-gcc is stable API that much--and it's not
common that you need it anyway. A normal user just cross compiles
by using
guix build --target=i686-linux pkg
or better yet, uses qemu to natively compile it for a foreign system
guix build --system=i686-linux pkg
.
The above is only necessary when for some reason your package has
parts which only compile on one system and other parts which only
compile on another system--that's very rare.
Nowadays, packages are supposed to be cross-platform, so using cross-gcc
directly is unnecessary, too.
Right now cross-gcc is not documented, so I guess that counts as
"not a public interface".
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