Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> You could run ‘nix-build -A stdenv -K /path/to/nixpkgs’. Upon glibc >> build failure, just get into the failed build tree: > > Yep, it failed with the same error. Then there may be something wrong with your setup, because glibc is known to build on Fuloong, right?

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-11 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> You could run ‘nix-build -A stdenv -K /path/to/nixpkgs’. Upon glibc > build failure, just get into the failed build tree: Yep, it failed with the same error. > $ sudo chown -r $USER /tmp/nix-build-*glibc-2.13* > $ cd /tmp/nix-build-*glibc-2.13* > $ source env-vars > $ cd build > $ make [

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> For Automake, I don’t think it makes sense, though. Or did you have >> anything special in mind? > > Dependencies. For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar. > (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42. > Also, Bar-42 has some back

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-11 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> For Automake, I don’t think it makes sense, though. Or did you have > anything special in mind? Dependencies. For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar. (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42. Also, Bar-42 has some backward incompatible changes.) If you up

‘core-updates’ branch merged

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! I’ve finally merged the ‘core-updates’ branch. So what this brings is new package versions, improved GNU build system support, and in particular support for building in the absence of /bin/sh, and bootstrap tools that use a libc that does not rely on nscd. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: Error messages and progress report

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> I find it useful to have the server name printed (esp. in the case of >> mirror://, ftpmirror.gnu.org, etc.), so I’ve come up with a solution >> that abbreviates long URIs like this: >> I’ll commit it if there are

Re: Error messages and progress report

2013-01-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > I find it useful to have the server name printed (esp. in the case of > mirror://, ftpmirror.gnu.org, etc.), so I’ve come up with a solution > that abbreviates long URIs like this: > I’ll commit it if there are no objections. This looks goo

Re: libsigsegnv does not install

2013-01-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Oops, should be fixed with f03e711 Yes, it is working now. Andreas

Re: guix-package --roll-back

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > This one doesn't work at all: > > (option '("foo") #f #t > (lambda (opt name arg result) > (alist-cons 'foo arg result))) It actually does, but it has no side effect. ‘args-fold’ uses a common functional programming pattern, whereby the functi

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> I think Lluís said that something must be added to ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix >> to make sure the right platform setup is used, but again, I have no >> expertise in MIPS64 so I can’t really help. > > Thanks, I forgot about 'config.nix'. Unfortunately, it didn't help