Re: core-updates: Emacs is only supported on x86_64-linux?

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, I've realized that that patch wasn't quite right.  I've
> attached a corrected version to this email.
>
> Although the %current-system parameter will look like "x86_64-linux"
> because it's a Guix system name, the %current-target-system parameter
> will look like "x86_64-linux-gnu" (or whatever the user happens to
> supply, e.g. via the --target option of "guix build") because it's a GNU
> triplet.

Indeed, good catch.

> The attached patch accomplishes the same goal as before, but
> it uses string-prefix? to check whether we're building for an x86_64
> machine, rather than matching on an exact string.

Your proposed patch looks good to me, as a temporary measure to make
Guix a bit more usable on non-Intel systems until we get Rust working on
them.  I would be in favor of pushing it to 'core-updates'.

     Thanks!
       Mark