Re: Introducing ‘guix pack’

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> And now you can do:
>
>   guix pack grep --target=i686-w64-mingw32
>
> or:
>
>   guix pack address@hidden --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf -f docker

...exactly what has been missing: awesome, thanks!

> Granted, this is not optimal space-wise because cross-compiled binaries
> end up pulling the whole cross toolchain (due to cross-gcc not having a
> separate “lib” output), so for instance the cross-built grep tarball
> above weighs in at 91 MiB (330 MiB uncompressed :-)).  We’ll fix that.

:-)  Oh well.

> Anyway, pretty cool!

Pretty cool!
Greetings,
janneke

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