Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

2017-12-07 Thread Chris Marusich
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > In practice, apart from x86_64-linux which was bootstrapped on NixOS, we > always cross-compile to bootstrap new architectures: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Porting.html > > That was the case for all the non-Intel

Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

2017-11-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, In practice, apart from x86_64-linux which was bootstrapped on NixOS, we always cross-compile to bootstrap new architectures: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Porting.html That was the case for all the non-Intel arches and for GNU/Hurd. Is that what you meant?

Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

2017-11-26 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 04:47:51PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi, > > We have bootstrap binaries for various platforms. For example, commit > 3b88f3767d9f3ad2cc64173525cd53d429bfe7e7 adds bootstrap binaries for > aarch64-linux. Judging by the commit message, my guess is that these >

Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

2017-11-23 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, We have bootstrap binaries for various platforms. For example, commit 3b88f3767d9f3ad2cc64173525cd53d429bfe7e7 adds bootstrap binaries for aarch64-linux. Judging by the commit message, my guess is that these bootstrap binaries were built (cross-compiled, I presume) using Guix at commit