Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hmm, make check showed some silly errors, I needed this patch And I needed another one to get tests/builders.scm to pass. And although it passes it builds most of mes bootstrap in ./test-tmp, which takes quite a bit of time. Moreover, quite some other problems =

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 23:35:17 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Thanks to your hard work on our Rust packages, I was able to update our > IceCat package to a pre-release of 60.2.0. I recently pushed it to > master and Hydra is currently busy bootstrapping the chain of Rust > compilers in order to e

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, >> and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected >> improvements into master? > > I agree actually. Rust is taking up way too much of my own build > capacity righ

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi! >> I finally realised what it really means that the GuixSD bootstrap has >> `binutils-cross-boot0' (I really think that should be reflected in the >> SCM name too?) and `gcc-cross-boot0': bolting the x86_64-linux bootstrap >> onto the i686-linux Mes bootstrap proved to

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi Ludo', > (And sorry for the delay; I reckon my mail scheduling algorithm leaves a > lot to be desired…) AFAICS, esp. what's coming your way you schedule way better than I do ;) >> +@node Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap >> +@section The Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap > >

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Joshua Branson
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Mark, > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 > Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > If anyone wants a simple way to contribute to getting Rust bootstrapped, > please provide some cpu time to help with compiling Rust :) I've got a 4 year old AMD APU 4 core sitting at my pa

Re: guix package --search: Display if package is installed or not?

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > When outputting the result of a commandline search, it could be handy to > add a field "Installed? [yes|no]". FWIW I’m not very enthusiastic but not opposed either. :-) Ludo’.

Re: Add "tags" field to package record?

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > What about adding an optional "tags" field to the package record? > > Tags would be arbitrary (e.g. "editor", "video", "music", etc.) and > useful for package exploration, both from commandline and guix.el I > suppose. I have mixed feelings about this.

Re: Chromium channel

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Marius, Marius Bakke skribis: > I've set up a channel for Chromium here: > > https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium Nice! Great to see channels put to good use. :-) Though… let’s make sure this channel doesn’t derail “us” from the goal of having an FSDG-compliant Chromium in Guix prop

mips64el port

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Anyway, the situation is that our MIPS port is more or less "on ice", > meaning that it could be revived with modest effort, but at the present > time there's not enough developer attention to keep it functional. What do you think would be the best course of

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > >> Just to give you a heads up: four `Oops' fixup-commits later I decided >> to squash them again and create a fresh wip-bootstrap: d7feea557. >> >> I think it could be ready for a rename to core-updates-next. >> >> $ guix hash -r /

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! (And sorry for the delay; I reckon my mail scheduling algorithm leaves a lot to be desired…) Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> $ guix hash -r /gnu/store/58q6748dydqxrhrw8xn2gsf60djl6gvv-hello-2.10 >> 005zi21nvhmygjam6vsvkgmw9awsmyacz6a65naxcblrpbra1g94 > > A

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Pjotr, On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:11:42 +0200 Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, > > and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected > > improvements into

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 23:35:17 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > It took my fastest laptop about 36 hours to build the chain of 5 rust > compilers required to get to the latest Rust release, and to build > IceCat. By the time I had gotten IceCat built and tested, you had > pushed a few more i

Re: More stability needed in our Rust packages, for IceCat 60

2018-09-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:35:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > How would you feel about doing further Rust work on a separate branch, > and periodically (maybe 2-4 times per month) merging the collected > improvements into master? Or have a stable package which is a good idea anyway, especially