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Re: Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains)
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains) |
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Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:16:39 +0200 |
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David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Now, in most cases, the tiny Guile derivations created via
>> ‘gexp->derivation’ et al. in GuixSD (e.g., the derivation that builds
>> the initrd) could use, say, an x86_64 Guile, even if building for
>> mips64el. However, it would be difficult to take advantage of this
>> AFAICS.
>
> So maybe I am taking the wrong approach. If an hypothetical --target
> flag would exist, could it use natively built substitutes?
It could use substitutes for cross-compiled things, just like “guix
build coreutils --target=mips64el-linux-gnu” can use substitutes.
Ludo’.