Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

[jbranso]

July 14, 2022 11:38 AM, "Vagrant Cascadian" <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2022-07-14, zimoun wrote:
> 
>> Well, dreaming about science fiction, it appears me more approachable to
>> have Guix running on something as Debian/kfreeBSD – it could be an
>> interesting project with the help of Debian folks. Other said, “just”
>> replace the Linux kernel by a variant of the FreeBSD one running with
>> GNU GLibc.
> 
> Well, guile-3.0 does not build on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, so that would be
> a bit of a blocker for a GNU Guix port:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/guile-3.0
> 
> But guile-2.2 built fine:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/guile-2.2
> 
> It is a rough port, I have toyed with it now and again ... requires lots
> of patches to code that assume userland based on running kernel; patches
> that upstreams are hesitant to take, etc. It is great as a grueling test
> of coding assumptions, though!

Does guile 3.0+ compile on the GNU/Hurd?  

> 
> My guess is you would have the same sort of problems with porting GNU
> Guix to any of the *BSD.
> 
> Definitely the sort of project that would take someone highly motivated
> over many years...
> 
> live well,
> vagrant