Re: ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rumpkernel in GNU Guix

[Samuel Thibault]

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen, le mar. 16 mai 2023 14:04:38 +0200, a ecrit:
> variants, but in the Guix build only ext2fs.static got built.  As I
> couldn't find any reference to how building ex2fs.static was triggered,
> I ignored it...
> 
> Also, until recently Guix simply used /hurd/ext2fs, but that failed on
> some machines
> 
>     https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58320

That bug report was rather about exec.

> so it was --kind of reluctantly-- changed.  It would be good to know
> we're simply supposed to use ext2fs.static.

Concerning ext2fs it *has* to be static, since dynamic load requires
being able to read files :)

> Thanks to your remark I now found
> 
>      https://salsa.debian.org/hurd-team/hurd/-/blob/master/debian/rules#L32
> 
> and by adding
> 
>      --enable-static-progs=ext2fs,iso9660fs,rumpdisk,pci-arbiter,acpi
> 
> to our package the .STATIC variants got nicely built and I used them for
> our grub.cfg.

Rumpdisk was relatively experimental so I hadn't enabled the static
builds by default upstream indeed. Now I have :)

Samuel