Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark! Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: If you own a 64-bit MIPS system (including Loongson 2F), are willing to build everything on your own machine, and would like to try out the preliminary port of Guix to MIPS N32, the loongson branch of the Guix git repo is ready for your early

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:41:24AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: More importantly, because there are so many patches for Loongson 2F that are not yet ready to be applied upstream -- either because they are not sufficiently clean, or because they choose a compile-time configuration that uses

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:41:24AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: More importantly, because there are so many patches for Loongson 2F that are not yet ready to be applied upstream -- either because they are not sufficiently clean, or because they choose a

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Andreas and Ludovic! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: Personally, I think mips64el should be a fully qualified release architecture just as i686 and x86_64. So it would be better to have it in master and not in a separate branch. So far, the

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: Personally, I think mips64el should be a fully qualified release architecture just as i686 and x86_64. So it would be better to have it in master and not in a separate

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I tried to build ‘hello’ twice, and the following error occurred each time: stripping binaries in /nix/store/hl8khv4qip9nwbm1qm93irbz9has4wrd-gcc-cross-boot0-4.7.3/bin with strip and flags (--strip-debug) phase `strip' succeeded after 17 seconds error (ignored): aborting transaction: cannot

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Nikita, Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org writes: I tried to build ‘hello’ twice, and the following error occurred each time: stripping binaries in /nix/store/hl8khv4qip9nwbm1qm93irbz9has4wrd-gcc-cross-boot0-4.7.3/bin with strip and flags (--strip-debug) phase `strip' succeeded

Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

2013-10-18 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I still think it's probably a good idea to switch away from JFS, since you're likely to run into other problems like this, I see this as an opportunity to report problems. but if you really want to stick with JFS, compiling a newer version of SQLite and then reconfiguring and rebuilding