Re: jfs, jfsutils?

[Michael Zucchi]

Well it failed in 'make check' so I stopped going further as I didn't 
want some other fault causing a mess.

The critical detail is that my kernel has "CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION" turned 
off.

In my original query I included some output from tests/challenge.log:

...
warning: authentication and authorization of substitutes disabled!
@ build-started 
/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/store/wr9c2ddgxlgifni61caxd2ain8b7rqv5-guile-bootstrap-2.0.drv 
- x86_64-linux 
/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/var/log/guix/drvs/wr//9c2ddgxlgifni61caxd2ain8b7rqv5-guile-bootstrap-2.0.drv.bz2 
8592
while setting up the build environment: executing 
`/home/notzed/src/guix/test-tmp/store/f0ips0sdyhnhlfdqayvcbddqlijk7iid-bash': 
Exec format error
...

gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:128 uses the 'i686-linux' directory for 
'x86_64-linux' architecture, and gnu/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux has 
32-bit binaries (obviously!).

I tried adding a x86_64 block to %bootstrap-executables and creating 
softlinks in gnu/packages/bootstrap/x86_64 but most tests want to 
download them from git.savannah.gnu.org, and tests/derivations.scm still 
tries to run the 32-bit binaries anyway.

 Z

On 31/12/19 11:12 am, Josh Marshall wrote:
> I would expect guix to bootstrap and run on x86_64.  I thought it 
> worked on my systems.  I'd be interested to hear more about this.
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 18:38 Michael Zucchi <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/12/19 10:27 am, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>     >
>     > If you're completely new to Guix that might sound daunting, but
>     it's
>     > honestly not that hard and you should get plenty of help on the
>     > mailing list and/or on IRC.
>     >
>
>     Sorry Tobias, but I haven't been able to progress any further on
>     this.
>     As far as I can tell the guix boostrap process doesn't support
>     amd64-only systems so although I can compile it, it doesn't pass
>     'make
>     check' and so I didn't try further.  32-bit executables are
>     disabled in
>     my kernel and bootstrap.scm just assumes they work based on the
>     architecture.
>
>     I asked on IRC but I'm in the 'wrong' timezone to get any useful
>     responses and a query to the mailing list went unanswered.
>
>     Also, sort of related and I know it's not guix's fault but it's
>     somewhat
>     difficult to find anything useful about guix using any search engine.
>
>     Regards,
>       Z