On 6/1/20 5:34 am, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
32-bit executables are disabled in my kernel and bootstrap.scm just assumes they work based on the architecture.I believe this is related to the method guix is bootstrapped on x86_64 currently. As far as I know there is a minimal bootstrap seed which is 32 bits, and the final bootstrap is cross-compiled to x86_64. The problem is that for the sake of simplicity the current bootstrap binaries were created with 32 bits in mind. I am sure that they would appreciate any help to get x86_64 bootstrapped directly. Does that make sense?
Yep sure that matches my take on it. I'm willing to help if anyone has any ideas.
Last week I tried editing bootstrap.scm to add and use a 64-bit section with my own files and checksums via my own server, but I couldn't get it to work so I just gave up. It downloaded them ok but the checksum failed - despite them being correct as far as i could tell. I didn't make static binaries though so maybe that's related. It took so long to try out each iteration I also lost interest.
