Re: Working Guix on 64 bit PowerPC.

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:56:21PM +0100, Tobias Platen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got the wip-ppc branch of Guix compiling unmodified on my Talos II.
> Since the POWER9 is backwards compatible with the PowerPC G4, it can run
> the existing bootstrap binaries for powerpc-linux. The binaries from
> http://flashner.co.il/guix/bootstrap/powerpc-linux/ have been verified
> working on my Talos II. I also plan to setup a mirror of those binaries.
> 
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ arch
> ppc64
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ ps -A | grep guix
>  1104 pts/1    00:00:00 guix-daemon
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello
> guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system 
> 'powerpc64-linux'
> [user@staticvoid guix]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor     : 0
> cpu           : POWER9, altivec supported
> clock         : 2154.000000MHz
> revision      : 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202)
> 

I found that once I rebased on core-updates it stopped building as
nicely. I don't remember where the failure was, but it was somewhere in
commencement.scm.

I am really glad to hear that it worked :)

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