Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org skribis: Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 12:19:44 +0100, a écrit : I can mentor the project, but I would really like someone from the Hurd side to co-mentor. Any volunteer? (This is essentially already the case in practice, but we could make it

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-13 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Manolis Ragkousis manolis...@gmail.com wrote: For now if you can point me to where I can find any relevant code you have available for the building procedure ,especially the part for glibc and libpthread, I will be grateful. :-) I've dumped my build

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-12 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Manolis Ragkousis manolis...@gmail.com wrote: I am reading any available documentation or existing source that can help me and I would really appreciate any suggestions ,corrections or questions that can help me. I'm not really a Hurd developer, but I've

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-12 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hi David I'm not really a Hurd developer, but I've been cross-compiling Hurd-from-scratch from git for a little over a year now. Let me know if you get stuck or just want to see some relevant code, and we can share scripts and notes (at least for the earlier stages of your project). Thank

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 11 Mar 2014 12:19:44 +0100, a écrit : I can mentor the project, but I would really like someone from the Hurd side to co-mentor. Any volunteer? (This is essentially already the case in practice, but we could make it official.) I can co-mentor, but I guess Richard will

Re: [GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Manolis Ragkousis manolis...@gmail.com skribis: Here is a simple roadmap explaing what is there to be done. 1) Successfully cross-build the hurd's glibc 2) Make the appropriate changes to cross-base.scm so the toolchain will use the new glibc when hurd is targeted with guix build

[GSoC] Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd

2014-03-11 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello Guix , Hello Hurd Most of you already know me from the irc ,lurking around as phant0mas and that I am working towards porting Guix to GNU/Hurd. In order to be able to do that I have already packaged mach headers ,hurd headers and mig and I am currently working on packaging and