Re: Working Guix on 64 bit PowerPC.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Tobias Platen <guix@platen-software.de> skribis:

> I've got the wip-ppc branch of Guix compiling unmodified on my Talos II.
> Since the POWER9 is backwards compatible with the PowerPC G4, it can run
> the existing bootstrap binaries for powerpc-linux. The binaries from
> http://flashner.co.il/guix/bootstrap/powerpc-linux/ have been verified
> working on my Talos II. I also plan to setup a mirror of those binaries.
>
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ arch
> ppc64
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ ps -A | grep guix
>  1104 pts/1    00:00:00 guix-daemon
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello
> guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system 
> 'powerpc64-linux'

To address that, you can hack ‘bootstrap-executable’ in
gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm so that it uses “powerpc-linux” when it’s on
“powerpc64-linux” (similar to what’s done for x86_64-linux).

HTH!

Ludo’.