Re: Cross-compilation broken on canonical packages.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

> Small mistake sorry. This fails:
>
> guix build --target=aarch64-linux-gnu -e "((@ (gnu packages base) 
> canonical-package) (@ (gnu packages base) grep))"
>
>
> while this succeeds:
>
> guix build -e "((@ (gnu packages base) canonical-package) (@ (gnu packages 
> base) grep))"

This is expected: packages in ‘%final-inputs’ (those returned by
‘canonical-package’) are rooted in the bootstrap graph and cannot be
cross-compiled.

Perhaps ‘%base-packages’ should use packages form (gnu packages base)
instead?  The reason it uses ‘canonical-package’ is just to avoid
introducing redundant packages in the system, but I don’t think it makes
that much sense.

Thanks,
Ludo’.