Hi Guix!
The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good
janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload
/gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10
janneke@debian:~/src/guix$
/gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10/bin/hello
Hello, world!
\o/
Current development lives on the `wip-hurd-bootstrap' branch @ my
personal gitlab
https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix #wip-hurd-bootstrap
It has some 20 odd patches. I chose to create workarounds to "get early
success" rather than doing everything right. While I worked on forward
porting glibc patches, I only took the minimal set that I needed. Also,
I reverted to make 4.1 instead of debugging why make 4.3 fails (for
now).
Most controversial/problematic is the need to use fairly recent gnumach
and hurd sources. Somehow the bootstrap in commencement currently tries
to usee GIT versions of those (gnumach-headers-boot0,
hurd-headers-boot0), creating a bootstrap dependency loop. I tried
building from release tarballs with patches but in the end I "simply"
ran `make dist' for gnumach and hurd and use those source tarballs.
I have built bootstrap tarballs
./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs
and put them up at
http://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/i586-gnu/20200304/
Gnumach and Hurd tarball sources are here
http://lilypond.org/janneke/hurd
I have included my setup/install instructions in Git
https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-bootstrap/THE-HURD
What could be the next step? We have a stale branch `wip-hurd' at
savannah by Manolis and Efraim's recent wip-hurd-bootstrap (which I
started from, but rewrote).
Shall I push this to savannah as `wip-hurd' (possibly save wip-hurd->
`wip-hurd-old?); I could also rewrite wip-hurd-bootstrap?
When we mave a branch I'd like to open a bug report on merging it,
and setting up build hosts (as discussed with Ricardo on IRC).
Greetings,
janneke
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