Re: Progress on the Hurd; new state of wip-hurd-vm

2020-04-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Like before, you should be able to run > > ./pre-inst-env guix build -f gnu/system/hurd.scm As reported by apteryx on IRC yesterday, this command may fail for you unless you have already built the bootstrap binaries for the Hurd. If you are new to the Hurd you mus

Re: Progress on the Hurd; new state of wip-hurd-vm

2020-04-20 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:39 AM Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Yes, some of them (gnutls, git, python) have just been cleaned-up and > applied to core-updates. nice ! > > I'm looking at the first one (for perl) for example... > > Ah, that one took some review and effort, see https://bugs.gnu

Re: Progress on the Hurd; new state of wip-hurd-vm

2020-04-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Vincent Legoll writes: Hello Vincent, > I just had a tour of that branch, it looks like there are interesting > patches wrt cross-building, aren't those ready for upstream (core- > updates maybe) ? Yes, some of them (gnutls, git, python) have just been cleaned-up and applied to core-updates. >

Re: Progress on the Hurd; new state of wip-hurd-vm

2020-04-19 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I just had a tour of that branch, it looks like there are interesting patches wrt cross-building, aren't those ready for upstream (core- updates maybe) ? I'm looking at the first one (for perl) for example... I've been trying to cross-compile the binary-tarball to new arches, without any

Progress on the Hurd; new state of wip-hurd-vm

2020-04-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hello, I just reset wip-hurd-vm to ba6bdb0d0b gnu: guix: Run `make update-guix-package'. Like before, you should be able to run ./pre-inst-env guix build -f gnu/system/hurd.scm on it to get a VM and start it doing something like guix environment --ad-hoc qemu -- qemu-system-i386 -enab