Re: 01/01: gnu: address@hidden: Remove aarch64-linux from supported-systems.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Hi Efraim,
>> 
>> address@hidden writes:
>> 
>> > efraim pushed a commit to branch master
>> > in repository guix.
>> >
>> > commit 454e7132d6fffb5c9a5ce086ffd1b687416feb83
>> > Author: Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
>> > Date:   Sat Dec 1 22:41:19 2018 +0200
>> >
>> >     gnu: address@hidden: Remove aarch64-linux from supported-systems.
>> >     
>> >     * gnu/packages/ocaml.scm (address@hidden)[supported-systems]: New 
>> > field.
>> 
>> What's the rationale for this change?
>> Debian includes OCaml 4.01 in its arm64 port.
>> 
>>   https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=arm64&keywords=ocaml
>>   http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/ocaml/ocaml_4.01.0-5_arm64.deb
>> 
>>       Mark
>
> starting phase `configure'
> ../gnu/config.guess: unable to guess system type

Would it be enough to add Automake as a native input and copy
‘config.guess’ from there?

If not, I think it’d be good to add a comment above ‘supported-systems’
explaining why we remove a specific system.

Thanks,
Ludo’.