I succesfully crosscompiled GNU Hello and all its dependencies including
glibc for POWER9. Without my patch glibc will fail to build. I am using
the core-updates branch, since the default branch uses an outdated
version of GCC.
Tobias
diff --git a/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm b/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
index 8fe9d5b..f642bad 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ base compiler and using LIBC (which may be either a libc package or #f.)"
"--disable-decimal-float" ;would need libc
"--disable-libcilkrts"
+ "--with-long-double-128" ; required for power9 bootstrap
+
;; When target is any OS other than 'none' these
;; libraries will fail if there is no libc
;; present. See
