Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gábor, > I'm using the getenv approach Ricardo suggested. I've not written a wrapper > yet, the environment variables are set from the build. Maybe that’s sufficient already. Since the result of this package is not going to be used as an input to build software it may not actually need a

Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Gábor Boskovits writes: Hey Gábor, > Jan, I can now pass the test you have in the original patch, which > basically builds gcc-4.7.4 twice, and  checks if gcc/bin are > identical. Woohoo! Amazing work! > I'm using the getenv approach Ricardo suggested. I've not written a wrapper > yet, the

[PATCH] scripts: hash: Add --git option. WIP

2017-11-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi! Attached is a patch to get the hash of a git archive without having to clean the tree or do a clean checkout. Using guix hash -gr . procudes the same hash as doing something like git clone . tmp && guix hash -rx tmp && rm -r tmp I marked it as WIP because while it is already

Re: maxima: The SGC segfault recovery test failed with memprotect_bad_fault_address, SGC disabled

2017-11-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Kei Kebreau writes: > > I turns out that the issue is with stratified garbage collection in > GCL. The substitute from hydra.gnu.org does in fact give me the error > when I run "(si::sgc-on t)" in the REPL. I'm preparing a patch to update > GCL to the version used in Debian

Re: maxima: The SGC segfault recovery test failed with memprotect_bad_fault_address, SGC disabled

2017-11-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Alex Vong writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Alex Vong writes: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> When I start maxima, I get the following warning message: >>> >>> The SGC segfault recovery test failed with >>>

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Hi Guix, >>> >>> some of our Java packages now only build with icedtea-8. To avoid >>> incompatibilities we should make icedtea-8 the default and

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day!

2017-11-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
I am booking a room at ICAB for 3 nights. Anyone else want to stay? They ask you to book now, and you have to be pretty sure. It is a 20 minutes walk to downtown. I think that is perfect. Pj. On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 07:55:40PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > We are hosting a GNU Guix and Guile day

Re: gcc-ddc

2017-11-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello! Jan, I can now pass the test you have in the original patch, which basically builds gcc-4.7.4 twice, and checks if gcc/bin are identical. I'm using the getenv approach Ricardo suggested. I've not written a wrapper yet, the environment variables are set from the build. As the gcc binary

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Hi Guix, >> >> some of our Java packages now only build with icedtea-8. To avoid >> incompatibilities we should make icedtea-8 the default and make sure >> that all packages still build with that

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

2017-11-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > some of our Java packages now only build with icedtea-8. To avoid > incompatibilities we should make icedtea-8 the default and make sure > that all packages still build with that version. > > Who would like to help with this? We can do