Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-29 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Check “strings /nix/store/qn*-glibc-intermediate-2.17/bin/sh | grep ld-linux”. > Most likely that points to a loader that doesn’t exist. It didn't output anything. Nikita pgpD7njqelsUp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Openssh

2013-01-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, the test suite of openssh fails as follows: Privilege separation user sshd does not exist FATAL: sshd_proxy broken Apparently, the sshd daemon expects to be run by a user named sshd. Is there a way to create such a user just during the test run? Apart from that, I disabled the tests, an

Faster!

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! With commits a7b6ffe and bdcf35a, you should notice that ‘guix-build’ and similar are more than twice as fast as two days ago. This was achieved by adding caches in the now obvious places, which noticeably reduces the number of round trips and the amount of data sent to the daemon. Ludo’.

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > I finally installed Gobby, and it works beautifully! > > Perhaps if we type in using Org-mode “syntax” we can then use Org’s HTML > export facility in the cron job. WDYT? I do not know how to write it; is it difficult? How about recutils in

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> The obvious thing to do here is to check whether that binary works >> correctly. It’s supposed to be the statically-linked bootstrap Bash, >> see base.scm. > > The files are there. But if I try > '/nix/store/qn*-glibc-intermediate-2.17/bin/sh --help', I'll get 'No

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-29 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> The obvious thing to do here is to check whether that binary works > correctly. It’s supposed to be the statically-linked bootstrap Bash, > see base.scm. The files are there. But if I try '/nix/store/qn*-glibc-intermediate-2.17/bin/sh --help', I'll get 'No such file or directory'. > This is t

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > So I set up a gobby server. I do not know whether there are console based > clients, but you can use the gtk program "gobby". Upon connecting, it > allows to edit files, with contributions by different persons highlighted > in different colours. And there is a little ch

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > starting phase `build' > rm -f mksyntax > make: > /nix/store/qn9m4cjncna9mcac98fynialsv2l28jm-glibc-intermediate-2.17/bin/sh: > Command not found > make: *** [mksyntax] Error 127 The obvious thing to do here is to check whether that binary works correctly. It’s su

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openldap.

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Samstag, 26. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: [...] >> Did you check whether it does DNS lookups or similar? > > Not that I could tell and there is no reason for it, but the file has over > 2000 lines. I ended up disabling two tests; the remaining tests pass, >

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Andreas Enge writes: > Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 schrieb Florian Friesdorf: >> I think having version control and history is quite beneficial for >> keeping track who closed what when. > > There is already the git for the project itself, and at some point in time, > we might need a bug tracker

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openldap.

2013-01-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Samstag, 26. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > So I would suggest adding Libtool/bin as an input, and adding a phase > that does (copy-file (which "libtool") "libtool") right after > ‘configure’. Thanks for your help in implementing this! > Did you check whether it does DNS lookups or sim

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-01-29 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Can you change that and try again? It worked, but there is a new error: [...] starting phase `build' rm -f mksyntax make: /nix/store/qn9m4cjncna9mcac98fynialsv2l28jm-glibc-intermediate-2.17/bin/sh: Command not found make: *** [mksyntax] Error 127 phase `build' failed after 0 seconds builder

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Cyril Roelandt skribis: > > Is it possible to have a read-only access to the files ? It would be > > nice for potential contributors to be able to read our TODO list. > > I agree that would be nice. > > If the tool doesn’t support it, perhap

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt skribis: > Is it possible to have a read-only access to the files ? It would be > nice for potential contributors to be able to read our TODO list. I agree that would be nice. If the tool doesn’t support it, perhaps we could have a cron job that periodically exports the file some

Re: To-do lists

2013-01-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 schrieb Florian Friesdorf: > I think having version control and history is quite beneficial for > keeping track who closed what when. There is already the git for the project itself, and at some point in time, we might need a bug tracker. Here it is more about intra p