David Craven <da...@craven.ch> skribis: >> Now, in most cases, the tiny Guile derivations created via >> ‘gexp->derivation’ et al. in GuixSD (e.g., the derivation that builds >> the initrd) could use, say, an x86_64 Guile, even if building for >> mips64el. However, it would be difficult to take advantage of this >> AFAICS. > > So maybe I am taking the wrong approach. If an hypothetical --target > flag would exist, could it use natively built substitutes?
It could use substitutes for cross-compiled things, just like “guix build coreutils --target=mips64el-linux-gnu” can use substitutes. Ludo’.
