> I think we can leave this concern aside as a first approximation: Ah interesting. The only architecture other than arm I'm interested in is riscv. The riscv qemu port doesn't include a syscall emulation. But I guess the riscv ecosystem still has a long way to go...
> A derivation is essentially the file name of a “builder” along with its > argv and the needed dependencies. For a given derivation, the hook > would roughly run: > qemu-arm /gnu/store/…-builder arg1 arg2 … > Hope this clarifies things! Yes this does clarify things. Thanks!