Re: Trying to crosscompile for POWER9

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

On 10/16/18 8:08 PM, Tobias Platen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to compile GUIX for POWER9 an old version of GCC is used.
> How do I use the gcc version used for cross compiling.
> 
> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64le-linux hello
> 
> checking if powerpc64le-linux-gcc supports
> binary128 floating point type... no
> checking if the target machine is at least POWER8... yes
> 
> configure: error: ***
> binary128 floating point type (GCC >= 6.2) is required on powerpc64le.
> 
> Tobias "Tomoko" Platen
> 

Note that Marius Bakke started a branch to update guix to gcc7:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-gcc7

This could be maybe a good starting point. The bug number is: bug#32953