Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

[Christopher Baines]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:24:45 +0300
Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:59:06PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > At the GHM, one of the things I looked in to was cuirass.
> > Specifically, I tried to see if I could build a collection of guix
> > packages that sit outside of Guix.
> >   
> ...
> >
> > Does anyone have any opinions or ideas about this part of cuirass,
> > or building things other than the packages in the Guix repository
> > with it?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris  
> 
> I was thinking of running it on my aarch64 board to test some of the
> packages that specifically give aarch64 a hard time, like gsl. Or the
> gstreamer plugin packages, which sometimes pass and sometimes fail
> their test suites.

Providing these packages sit within the Guix repository, I think there
are configuration examples for building a subset of packages already
(e.g. I think this is what the hello related examples do).

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