Re: Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4

2020-02-13 Thread Scott C. MacCallum
Sounds great, Efraim. Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help 
with your efforts. I'm new to this, so I'll need tutorial on the basics.

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On Feb 13, 2020, 2:36 AM, Efraim Flashner < efr...@flashner.co.il> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 06:49:59PM +, Scott C. MacCallum wrote: > From: 
Carlos Sánchez de La Lama > Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap-tarballs: 
Cross-compile for powerpc-linux-gnu. > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:38:17 +0100 > 
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) > 
--- > > Hi! > > I 
finally found some time to clean-up my work. This patch is for > core-updates 
branch, and allows bootstrap tarball generation by > > guix build 
--target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs > > I think the best way to 
proceed is integrate this onto core-updates > (once reviewed & approved), then 
generate a bootstrap binaries on hydra, > making them available for download on 
the bootstrap binaries URL. At > that point I can update the rest of the 
powerpc-linux-gnu patches (which > use this binaries) with the correct hashes, 
and send them to the list. > > As Ludo suggested, I am also preparing a 
tutorial/blog on the porting > process. > > BR > > Carlos > > Does anyone know 
if Carlos ever produced a tutorial/blog post on how he did this? I'd like to 
port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4 for freedom/knowledge sake but the 
documentation that I've read, 
http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Porting.html#Porting and 
http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-the-Bootstrap-Binaries.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries
 has left me with more questions than answers. > > Thank you, > > Scott > 
scmguru - irc.freenode.net I reached out to Carlos a few years ago and he said 
he had moved on and was pretty sure he didn't have his code or bootstrap 
binaries anymore.o I've attached a few patches to this email, which is about 
where I am right now on working on the 32-bit PowerPC bootstrap. So far it 
looks promising. The change to bootstrap-guile I applied to master and the 
other 3 on core-updates, but I suspect they should all apply on top of master. 
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Re: Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4

2020-02-17 Thread Scott C. MacCallum
Wow! Great work.

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On Feb 17, 2020, 2:07 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote:

> I've done a bit of work on the port and my two branches live here¹ and here². 
> On master I get as far as gcc-cross-boot0. Core-updates does much better, 
> getting to glibc-intermediate, where it fails to build since it says it can't 
> find nptl. Searching the Guix tree I see that there's some references to nptl 
> in (gnu packages commencement) and in a glibc-2.29-git-updates.patch, so I'll 
> take a look at that. ¹ https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix/-/tree/ppc-master ² 
> https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix/-/tree/ppc-core-updates -- Efraim Flashner  
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Port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4

2020-02-12 Thread Scott C. MacCallum
From:   Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Subject:Re: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap-tarballs: Cross-compile for 
powerpc-linux-gnu.
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:38:17 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)
---

Hi!

I finally found some time to clean-up my work. This patch is for
core-updates branch, and allows bootstrap tarball generation by

guix build --target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs

I think the best way to proceed is integrate this onto core-updates
(once reviewed & approved), then generate a bootstrap binaries on hydra,
making them available for download on the bootstrap binaries URL. At
that point I can update the rest of the powerpc-linux-gnu patches (which
use this binaries) with the correct hashes, and send them to the list.

As Ludo suggested, I am also preparing a tutorial/blog on the porting
process.

BR

Carlos

Does anyone know if Carlos ever produced a tutorial/blog post on how he did 
this? I'd like to port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4 for 
freedom/knowledge sake but the documentation that I've read, 
http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Porting.html#Porting and 
http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-the-Bootstrap-Binaries.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries
 has left me with more questions than answers.

Thank you,

Scott
scmguru - irc.freenode.net