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bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-se
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swedebugia |
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bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error |
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Sun, 06 Jan 2019 02:34:57 -0800 |
On 2019-01-05 19:46, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi swedebugia,
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>>>An i686 machine cannot run and build software for x86_64. You would
>>>need to set up offloading to do that, or use
>>>‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’.
> […]
>> OK. Would it be OK to state this somewhere in the manual or am I the
>> only on trying to upgrade from 32->64 bit?
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> I'd prefer not to add this to the manual as it is not particular to
> Guix. x86_64 is the outlier here, as it has a i686 persona. Generally,
> you cannot build software for a different architecture without a cross
> toolchain (not applicable for Guix) or emulation (e.g. via
> qemu-binfmt-service-type).
Ok, thanks, closing this.
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Cheers
Swedebugia