Re: Guix on android blog post

[julien lepiller]

Le 2018-04-24 17:02, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit :
> julien lepiller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I would
> > recommend getting an armv7 or x86 device, because packages will be 
> > more
> > available than for aarch64 as with my current phone.
>
> Is this still a problem?  We have two aarch64 build nodes (of which one
> was added very recently), which I’d expect to be faster than the armv7
> boards.
>
> (I don’t have any ARM devices to test this myself, so I could be very
> wrong.)
>
> --
> Ricardo

I can't really compare with arm as I don't have any arm device with Guix 
on
them, but I had to build quite a lot of packages for my first guix pull. 
And
then it fails to build perl. So what you see on the image is a lie: I 
mistakenly
installed the arm guix which ran fine until it tried to build a newer 
version
in guix pull.

I tried to build a binary installation image for aarch64 on a recent 
commit
but that failed too at building the manual pages. I still had to build a 
glibc
version yesterday, but it looked like there were more substitutes 
available than
for the version my phone is running on.