Re: mips64el: guild problem

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> This “GOOF” cookie indicates the Guile Object Object(!) Format.  Here,
>> it says little endian with 8-byte pointers.  That corresponds to this
>> GNU triplet:
>> However, my guess is that Guile was compiled with the N32 ABI, so it
>> expects 4-byte words.  But Guile’s system/base/target.scm makes this
>> wrong assumption that “mips64” means 8-byte pointers:
>
> That sounds like the good diagnostic. Should guile not explicitly test the 
> size of the types, using the C sizeof or equivalent? From the triplet, one 
> cannot deduce the ABI.

Right, unless using triplet extensions as done on ARM and in Debian,
<http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples> (I think it’s the way to go.)

> Compiling worked so far. Now there is the hash mismatch in 
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/bootstrap/mips64el-
> linux/20130105/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz .

It’s just that build-aux/download.scm got a 404 while trying to download
it, because it’s not on gnu.org.

Until it’s on gnu.org, the fix is to manually download it from
<http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/packages/mips64el-linux/20130105/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.