Re: I managed to build guix natively on Debian GNU/Hurd , what's next?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Svante,

> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 21:25 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> After a lot of quirks I managed to get guix built natively on Debian
>> GNU/Hurd. What to do next?
>
> I managed to start the guix-daemon. Next seems to be the bootstrap
> binaries:
> guix build hello
> guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system
> 'i586-gnu'

You’ll need the bootstrap binaries.  I have previously built them but
at least “tar” segfaults.

Here’s what I wrote about this on IRC:

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<rekado> [12:36:12] gnu_srs: get a Debian GNU/Hurd, then build the Guix
         dependencies from source.
<rekado> [12:36:28] once you’ve got everything for building Guix also fetch
         the bootstrap binaries:
<rekado> [12:36:45] such as
         
http://berlin.guix.gnu.org/guix/bootstrap/i586-gnu/20190508/glibc-stripped-2.28-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz
<rekado> [12:36:51] binutils-static-stripped-2.31.1-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz
<rekado> [12:36:55] gcc-stripped-5.5.0-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz
<rekado> [12:37:01] guile-static-stripped-2.0.14-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz
<rekado> [12:37:03] static-binaries-0-i586-pc-gnu.tar.xz
<rekado> [12:37:33] (you’ll find that some of the static binaries such as tar
         will segfault when given certain arguments)
<rekado> [12:37:45] that’s where we’re at.
<rekado> [12:38:00] these binaries were cross-built.
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Good luck!

-- 
Ricardo