Well it failed in 'make check' so I stopped going further as I didn't
want some other fault causing a mess.
The critical detail is that my kernel has "CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION" turned
off.
In my original query I included some output from tests/challenge.log:
...
warning: authentication and authorization of substitutes disabled!
@ build-started
/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/store/wr9c2ddgxlgifni61caxd2ain8b7rqv5-guile-bootstrap-2.0.drv
- x86_64-linux
/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/var/log/guix/drvs/wr//9c2ddgxlgifni61caxd2ain8b7rqv5-guile-bootstrap-2.0.drv.bz2
8592
while setting up the build environment: executing
`/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/store/f0ips0sdyhnhlfdqayvcbddqlijk7iid-bash':
Exec format error
...
gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:128 uses the 'i686-linux' directory for
'x86_64-linux' architecture, and gnu/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux has
32-bit binaries (obviously!).
I tried adding a x86_64 block to %bootstrap-executables and creating
softlinks in gnu/packages/bootstrap/x86_64 but most tests want to
download them from git.savannah.gnu.org, and tests/derivations.scm still
tries to run the 32-bit binaries anyway.
Z
On 31/12/19 11:12 am, Josh Marshall wrote:
I would expect guix to bootstrap and run on x86_64. I thought it
worked on my systems. I'd be interested to hear more about this.
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 18:38 Michael Zucchi <not...@gmail.com
<mailto:not...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 12/12/19 10:27 am, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>
> If you're completely new to Guix that might sound daunting, but
it's
> honestly not that hard and you should get plenty of help on the
> mailing list and/or on IRC.
>
Sorry Tobias, but I haven't been able to progress any further on
this.
As far as I can tell the guix boostrap process doesn't support
amd64-only systems so although I can compile it, it doesn't pass
'make
check' and so I didn't try further. 32-bit executables are
disabled in
my kernel and bootstrap.scm just assumes they work based on the
architecture.
I asked on IRC but I'm in the 'wrong' timezone to get any useful
responses and a query to the mailing list went unanswered.
Also, sort of related and I know it's not guix's fault but it's
somewhat
difficult to find anything useful about guix using any search engine.
Regards,
Z
