Re: Building arm64 guix system image

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Max Brieiev wrote:
> I want to run Guix on Apple M1 as a Qemu virtual machine.
> 
> On the Mac machine I run arm64 dedian image. I installed there guix as a
> package manager. Now I am trying to create a guix system image to use
> with Qemu, but it fails.
> 
> Here is what I do:
> 
>     max@debian:~$ guix system image --system=aarch64-linux -t qcow2 
> ~/code/guix/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl 
>     guix system: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
>     'guix system reconfigure' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
>     
>     substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>     substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 
> 100.0%
>     The following derivations will be built:
>       /gnu/store/dhknasynfsx9ffsv2m188mmhfvz4l1cl-grub-2.06.drv
>       /gnu/store/875pz541zymv6vhl0hkfll151jv8sd2p-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv
>       /gnu/store/2vbjnb0f6dzcnvvyaaqjzww0146fpwmj-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv
>       /gnu/store/dclmdk80rbqqpix98vh6srhdbgscyiwb-qemu-7.2.0.tar.xz.drv
>       /gnu/store/g9crxhl9j2pw35kwgx9bdcjg3jrvi77v-linux-libre-6.1.9.drv
>       /gnu/store/blyj3j5v3p2lh6pj7mw81xjg58d1k4zb-shepherd-0.9.3.drv
>       /gnu/store/r517qlsjsl877kpjfl9ixay9mzh0n923-grub-efi32-2.06.drv
>       /gnu/store/pyv1w00f9c0q291qhi6y0911sqlvfcrv-grub-efi-2.06.drv
>       /gnu/store/875pz541zymv6vhl0hkfll151jv8sd2p-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv
>       /gnu/store/brzpisxg4dkvad07pd95riwn7c8559j6-genimage-15-1.ec44ae0.drv
>     
>     1.0 MB will be downloaded
>      alsa-utils-1.2.4  987KiB             4.5MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 
> 100.0%
>     building 
> /gnu/store/g9crxhl9j2pw35kwgx9bdcjg3jrvi77v-linux-libre-6.1.9.drv...
>     building 
> /gnu/store/2vbjnb0f6dzcnvvyaaqjzww0146fpwmj-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv...
>     | 'build' phasebuilder for 
> `/gnu/store/2vbjnb0f6dzcnvvyaaqjzww0146fpwmj-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv' 
> failed with exit code 1
>     build of 
> /gnu/store/2vbjnb0f6dzcnvvyaaqjzww0146fpwmj-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv failed
>     View build log at 
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/2v/bjnb0f6dzcnvvyaaqjzww0146fpwmj-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv.gz'.
>     cannot build derivation 
> `/gnu/store/875pz541zymv6vhl0hkfll151jv8sd2p-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv': 1 
> dependencies couldn't be built
>     guix system: error: build of 
> `/gnu/store/875pz541zymv6vhl0hkfll151jv8sd2p-qemu-minimal-7.2.0.drv' failed
> 
> 
> The relevant part of the build log shows the following errors:
> 
>     Building OpenBIOS for ppc
>     Building...
>     error:
>     
> /gnu/store/gm5mbaxkqhzafwy0wnimrg53j884glxn-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35/include/asm/sigcontext.h:128:2:
>  error: unknown type name ‘__u32’
>       128 |  __u32 size; /* size in bytes of the extra space */
>           |  ^~~~~
>     
> /gnu/store/gm5mbaxkqhzafwy0wnimrg53j884glxn-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35/include/asm/sigcontext.h:129:2:
>  error: unknown type name ‘__u32’
>       129 |  __u32 __reserved[3];
>           |  ^~~~~
>     
> /gnu/store/gm5mbaxkqhzafwy0wnimrg53j884glxn-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35/include/asm/sigcontext.h:136:2:
>  error: unknown type name ‘__u16’
>       136 |  __u16 vl;
>           |  ^~~~~
>     
> /gnu/store/gm5mbaxkqhzafwy0wnimrg53j884glxn-linux-libre-headers-5.10.35/include/asm/sigcontext.h:137:2:
>  error: unknown type name ‘__u16’
>       137 |  __u16 __reserved[3];
>           |  ^~~~~
>     make[1]: *** [rules.mak:83: host/kernel/bootstrap.o] Error 1
>     make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>     make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/tmp/guix-build-openbios-qemu-ppc-1.1.drv-0/source/obj-ppc'
>     make: *** [Makefile:19: build] Error 1
>     error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception:
>     %exception #<&invoke-error program: "make" arguments: ("-j" "4") 
> exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f> 
>     phase `build' failed after 0.2 seconds
>     command "make" "-j" "4" failed with status 2
> 
> I don't know where to look to fix this error. Please, help me.
> 
> Also, I thought I could find somewhere arm64 guix build, but apparently
> there is none?
> 
> I found only a raw image for Pinebook Pro:
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/196495
> 
> But for some reason it says it is x86_64 system, and this confuses me.
> 
> Thank you in advance.

I have two patches on the core-updates branch that should allow building
openbios-qemu-ppc from aarch64. I'll try cherry-picking them to master
and see if that allows building qemu-minimal.

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