Re: Pinebook pro build

[Leo Famulari]

Yeah, something isn't right.

I've CC-ed a Guix contributor with more experience with aarch64.
Hopefully they can help!

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 07:27:57PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> I did take a peek at the source but did not find that it helped me
> understand or fix the error.
> If I interpret the source correctly, "firmware" is being provided to the
> package as a native input.
> When I attempt the build without cross compiling then it does succeed...
> `guix build -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`
> 
> However that does defeat the purpose.
> 
> Why would the "firmware" native input not be available when targeting
> aarch64-linux-gnu?
> 
> Or perhaps that is not the correct question to ask...
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:04 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> > > In unknown file:
> > >            1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf")
> > > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > >   1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> > >
> > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> > > In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f
> >
> > This comes from (gnu packages bootloaders):
> >
> >
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm?id=1eb26d0e07ad439c935b324c1ed858f50e9dcccd#n928
> >
> > It seems that no value was passed for the "firmware" input.
> >