Hi Chris, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I want to get Guix working on macOS. I recently had a need to do this, > and I was sad to find that although Nix works on macOS, Guix isn't quite > there yet. The manual makes it sound like this should be fairly > straightforward, and I intend to give it a shot [1]. But before I > begin, I wanted to know: has anyone done this already? Is there > interest? I've checked the email lists, and I didn't find much > discussion about this. First of all, it’s never been a goal of Guix to run on non-GNU systems. Now, I have nothing against it in principle, as long as (1) this can be achieved in a maintainable way, and (2) the targeted user-land software is free and buildable from source. I suspect macOS fails criterion #2. Back in the day (not sure if that’s still the case), Nix would bootstrap using the system’s compiler and C library (which meant that things were likely to break in subtle ways on macOS upgrades.) As for criterion #1, to me, that pretty much means sticking to the GNU libc. From my experience on Nixpkgs, having to deal with different C libraries is a real burden. It also leads to a situation where you have second-class systems because they use an alternate libc and it’s not uncommon for packages to fail to build against that libc. To put it differently: it’s already difficult enough to have *one* OS working. I’m afraid this is not the answer you were looking for. WDYT? Ludo’.
