OK, now for the real issue: > configure:6577: checking for the Guix system type > configure:6579: result: i686-
and: > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > ERROR: bootstrap binary not found "tar" "i686-" Currently the distro within Guix is only available for GNU/Linux, i686 and x86_64. So the error we see here is just a graceless way of saying “not ported yet”. I’ll change ‘configure’ to just error out when running on an unsupported platform. Now, porting the distro to GNU/Hurd is part of the plan. That will require packaging all of the Hurd (the Hurd itself, GNU Mach, MiG, libpthread, and the Hurd’s glibc). This is doable (I already did that for Nix), but I would really want to use published tarballs, instead of packaging random Git checkouts of all that. Unfortunately the Hurd folks probably feel little incentive for releasing source tarballs given that the project is closely tied to Debian currently, for which source releases are not so important. So anyway, that’s the situation. Thanks, Ludo’.
