On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 08:19:34PM +0200, christoph vogelsberg wrote: > Hello again GuixSD-ers > > thanks for the last fast response! Now I face another question due to: > > > > My question: is there an already elabored way, documentation and so > > > on, for this specific problem? > > > > The solution is to build the software from source to produce a binary > > that is compatible with GuixSD. Guix has a GNU Icecat package that > > may provide a good base for this. > > I actually tried installing the IceCat package but my laptop got hang. It > was heavily virtualizing so I looked up hardware requirements for > building Firefox. I learned that 8GiB RAM (and therefor 64bit system) are > required. So this makes this package unbuildable for me. > > Is there any solution for that case in general? I fear persons like me who > can't efford hardware like that need to wait until a prebuild is available.
We do try to keep binary substitutes from our build farm available. They are availabe from the default URL <https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org> if you have authorized substitutes as described in the manual, section 2.1 Binary Installation. Otherwise, we could look into methods to make the build process less expensive, as suggested by ng0.
