Hi, Tobias Platen <g...@platen-software.de> skribis:
> I've got the wip-ppc branch of Guix compiling unmodified on my Talos II. > Since the POWER9 is backwards compatible with the PowerPC G4, it can run > the existing bootstrap binaries for powerpc-linux. The binaries from > http://flashner.co.il/guix/bootstrap/powerpc-linux/ have been verified > working on my Talos II. I also plan to setup a mirror of those binaries. > > [user@staticvoid guix]$ arch > ppc64 > [user@staticvoid guix]$ ps -A | grep guix > 1104 pts/1 00:00:00 guix-daemon > [user@staticvoid guix]$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello > guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system > 'powerpc64-linux' To address that, you can hack ‘bootstrap-executable’ in gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm so that it uses “powerpc-linux” when it’s on “powerpc64-linux” (similar to what’s done for x86_64-linux). HTH! Ludo’.
