Re: Building arm64 guix system image

[Max Brieiev]

Hi,

Akira Kyle <akira@akirakyle.com> writes:

> I think I may be one of the few (only?) guix users that has a setup
> like this. IIRC getting grub setup with qemu was the one trickier
> parts of this. Feel free to ping me directly if you're having trouble.

Thanks.

> This is also how I got my guix system on qemu setup. For the record, I
> initially tried fedora but iirc, selinux was causing some
> difficulties.

Was it by any chance a syslinux? It causes build failures for me right
now. How did you work around it?

> This is the relevant issue
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60719. Unfortunately until this is fixed,
> guix system won't build since grub-efi depends on qemu-minimial which
> in turn (recently) depends on openbios-qemu-ppc.

I used time-machine to go back to the parent of "Unbundle OpenBIOS"
commit. open-bios-qemu-ppc issue is gone, but now it fails to build
syslinux:

    guix time-machine --commit=53a1fce25a -- system image 
--system=aarch64-linux -t qcow2 ~/code/guix/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
    ...
    building 
/gnu/store/gf432a4p1a3ll314g8sina9d4mis37ca-syslinux-6.04-pre-1.bb41e93.drv...
    - 'build' phasebuilder for 
`/gnu/store/gf432a4p1a3ll314g8sina9d4mis37ca-syslinux-6.04-pre-1.bb41e93.drv' 
failed with exit code 1
    build of 
/gnu/store/gf432a4p1a3ll314g8sina9d4mis37ca-syslinux-6.04-pre-1.bb41e93.drv 
failed
    View build log at 
'/var/log/guix/drvs/gf/432a4p1a3ll314g8sina9d4mis37ca-syslinux-6.04-pre-1.bb41e93.drv.gz'.
    cannot build derivation 
`/gnu/store/0smy079q2zsmnq0lvxw7c0amy9va3vv7-ipxe-qemu-1.21.1.drv': 1 
dependencies couldn't be built
    building 
/gnu/store/i7ir5yv7ifw1rh8x20141dx4c8h7wcgd-u-boot-2022.10.tar.xz.drv...
    cannot build derivation 
`/gnu/store/rz143y972xmgv2gzw830b3ckm93z15l3-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv': 1 
dependencies couldn't be built
    guix system: error: build of 
`/gnu/store/rz143y972xmgv2gzw830b3ckm93z15l3-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv' failed

How can I proceed from here?

Thank you.