Congratulations!!
On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 11:15 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi Guix!
>
> The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good
>
> janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload
> /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10
> janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-
> hello-2.10/bin/hello
> Hello, world!
>
> \o/
>
> Current development lives on the `wip-hurd-bootstrap' branch @ my
> personal gitlab
>
> https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix #wip-hurd-bootstrap
>
> It has some 20 odd patches. I chose to create workarounds to "get early
> success" rather than doing everything right. While I worked on forward
> porting glibc patches, I only took the minimal set that I needed. Also,
> I reverted to make 4.1 instead of debugging why make 4.3 fails (for
> now).
>
> Most controversial/problematic is the need to use fairly recent gnumach
> and hurd sources. Somehow the bootstrap in commencement currently tries
> to usee GIT versions of those (gnumach-headers-boot0,
> hurd-headers-boot0), creating a bootstrap dependency loop. I tried
> building from release tarballs with patches but in the end I "simply"
> ran `make dist' for gnumach and hurd and use those source tarballs.
>
> I have built bootstrap tarballs
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs
>
> and put them up at
>
> http://lilypond.org/janneke/guix/i586-gnu/20200304/
>
> Gnumach and Hurd tarball sources are here
>
> http://lilypond.org/janneke/hurd
>
> I have included my setup/install instructions in Git
>
> https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-bootstrap/THE-HURD
>
> What could be the next step? We have a stale branch `wip-hurd' at
> savannah by Manolis and Efraim's recent wip-hurd-bootstrap (which I
> started from, but rewrote).
>
> Shall I push this to savannah as `wip-hurd' (possibly save wip-hurd->
> `wip-hurd-old?); I could also rewrite wip-hurd-bootstrap?
>
> When we mave a branch I'd like to open a bug report on merging it,
> and setting up build hosts (as discussed with Ricardo on IRC).
>
> Greetings,
> janneke
>