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<jmd>I can't make out what the hell octave is doing with its texinfo

<jmd>Can it be, that the PATH variables are not set correctly for cross-compilation?

<amz3>héllo

<amz3>what is the state of guix on arm ?

<jmd>guix ON arm or guix targetted for arm?

<amz3>what is the difference ?

<jmd>Well what are you trying to do?

<amz3>boot guix on raspberry

<jmd>guix is currently not bootable on anything so far as I'm aware.

<amz3>well they are images for x86

<amz3>it boot guile

<amz3>it boots guile itself

<jxself>Oh, Raspberry Pi? Uggh.

<amz3>yes

<jxself>It needs a binary blob - and won't even boot without it.

<amz3>yeah yeah I know all that, but is there any work done to support arm

<amz3>s/yeah yeah//

<jxself>I don't believe anyone has worked on that.

<jxself>The first step would be to work on getting the bootstrap binaries to build.

<amz3>yes

<amz3>what about cross compilation

<amz3>?

<amz3>I'm might start with that

<jmd>Basically guix is supposed to be able to crosscompile anything (even itself) for any target. But I don't think it has been really debugged yet.

<amz3>ok

<amz3>also

<jmd>pkg-config is totally messed up, for example

<amz3>does it support fake crosscompilation via qemu & proot ?

<amz3>I did something with a funtoo (gentoo-like), where I compiled the full distribution from scratch

<amz3>first step is to have the crosstool chain ready

<amz3>the second step is to rebuild everything for the target architecture

<amz3>the thing is some package don't support cross compilation, since I'm not a gcc nor a autotools expert, I use the proot trick

<amz3>proot+qemu

<amz3>I setup a minimal rootfs with links to the crosstools, and proot+qemu it, and they build everything from there

<amz3>it allows to avoid to have to patch upstream to crosscompile

<amz3>also since you use the crosscompilation toolchain you have almost native compilation speed

<amz3>anyway, I will dig into guix and report back

<amz3>I need to reboot

<amz3>qemu-system-i386 gnu-system-demo-0.4.img doesn't boot the demo on debian

<amz3>did I say something wrong?

<klrr_>amz3: i just think most people here just idle ;)

<amz3>anyhow, I'm build guix from guix now

<gzg>Anyone working on Icecat?

<Steap>gzg: Andreas was workng on it

<Steap>not sure whether the patch has been merged yet

<gzg>Steap: Cool. I'm trying to think what else we need/want for a basic/usable 0.5 demo image.

<gzg>wpa_supplicant I still need to finish, along with kbd -- but besides that, it seems fairly solid in scope.

<gzg>Does Icecat ship an Emacs-like keybindings extension?

<gzg>Looks like no, but obtaining Firemacs seems pretty trivial. :^P

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