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<usrnix>Hi, anyone know if the fosdem talk is up anywhere yet?
<mark_weaver>not yet.
<mark_weaver>not the video anyway. the slides are available somewhere.
<usrnix>mark_weaver: Ok thanks, will keep an eye open then
<mark_weaver>usrnix: it appears that this is where it will be, hopefully soon: http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Sunday/
<mark_weaver> https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2014-02-13-videos-progress/
<davexunit>I've been impatiently checking every day or so.
<usrnix>Yea I read that 1.0 doesn't seem all that far off and I'm interested to see what that might require
<mark_weaver>here's a fairly recent update/roadmap: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-12/msg00120.html
<phant0mas>good morning
<phant0mas>I just sent the fixed patch
<phant0mas>I hope I did everything right now :-)
<civodul>Hello Guix!
<phant0mas>hello civodul
<phant0mas>I sent the updated patch
<phant0mas>and started working on mig
<phant0mas>we use inputs in the recipe for guix to know the dependecies, right?
<civodul>phant0mas: right
<civodul>i'll look at the patch within a couple of hours hopefully
<civodul>currently hacking something for Guile's birthday ;-)
<phant0mas>then how do I say I need the gnumach-headers from hurd.scm?
<civodul>so you put the recipe for mig in hurd.scm, right?
<phant0mas>yes
<civodul>then just add an 'inputs' field, like this:
<civodul>(inputs `(("mach-headers" ,mach-headers)))
<phant0mas>let me try that
<phant0mas>thnx civodul :-)
<phant0mas>I want to pass to a flag at configure the position of the include folder build from gnu mach
<phant0mas>how can I do that?
<civodul>phant0mas: in the 'arguments' field, use the #:configure-flags keyword
<civodul>there are examples of that that you can grep for in gnu/packages
<civodul>let me know if that's still unclear :-)
<phant0mas>yes in the arguments
<phant0mas>I will find it :-)
<phant0mas>I think I did it , or at least it was succesfully built :-D
<phant0mas>now let me see if it works :P
<phant0mas>civodul: the link to that github repo you once worked on is helping me a lot :-D
<civodul>heh, good :-)
<mark_weaver>phant0mas: fwiw, the mach includes will automatically be put in CPATH, which might be enough by itself, dunno.
<phant0mas>civodul: sorry I forgot that...
<phant0mas>mark_weaver: I think you are right!
<mark_weaver>:)
<phant0mas>where have you been the whole day mark? I really started worrying that something happened to you :P
<mark_weaver>sleeping :)
<phant0mas>wow you can do that? :P
<phant0mas>I was really starting to believe you were some kind of cyborg :P
<mark_weaver>hehe
<davexunit>mark_weaver's hacking stamina is almost superhuman.
<civodul>howdy mark_weaver!
<mark_weaver>hi civodul!
<civodul>phant0mas: so your first patch is in :-)
<mark_weaver>that's a great hack you did!
<davexunit>congrats phant0mas!
<mark_weaver>indeed, I'm very excited for guix on hurd! my thinkpad will be donated to that cause, I think.
<civodul>heheh
<phant0mas>:-D
<mark_weaver>(my old thinkpad's screen has issues, and I want to move away from intel anyway, so it's basically a server now)
<phant0mas>So back to work for me then :-)
<mark_weaver>*grump* more MIPS page size issues. while trying to run a freshly-compiled xetex (a test as part of the guix build): ./xetex: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.50: ELF load command alignment not page-aligned
<mark_weaver>and indeed, I built 'icu4c' while running a kernel with 16K page size.
<mark_weaver>and that library was built using g++, so I guess there's some problem in the toolchain :-(
<mark_weaver>damn
<mark_weaver>and I can't remove the old icu4c build from /nix/store without also removing the emacs that's I'm running running :-(
<mark_weaver>s/running running/currently running/
<mark_weaver>lots of stuff is built on that library. what a pain.
<mark_weaver>the amount of stuff that I've built on top of this faulty library is almost overwhelming :-(
*mark_weaver buries his head in his pillow and cries
<phant0mas>something tells me there will be no sleep for you :P
<phant0mas>I really wish I could get my hands on a mips based pc
<mark_weaver>well, it's a major drag, but I'm just going to have to carry a local modification in my own tree to icu4c, just enough to change its hash, until the next core updates merge.
<mark_weaver>there's no way I'm going to delete the emacs I'm using and a bunch of other stuff, just to keep the same hash.
<mark_weaver>and I don't want to move back to a 16K kernel, because then I'll be trapped there forever.
<mark_weaver>(I won't be able to build things that work on the 64K kernel)
<mark_weaver>s/won't/wouldn't/
<mark_weaver>though I wonder if there are other things broken that I don't know about yet :-(
<mark_weaver>of course, I should also try to find the bug in binutils...
<phant0mas>guys because I don't have the super human stamina of mark ,I will go to bed
<phant0mas>see ya tomorrow guys
<mark_weaver>heh, sleep well!
<phant0mas>and I have to get some job done in the hardware lab at my univercity tomorrow
<phant0mas>so wish me luck :P
<mark_weaver>good luck!
<mark_weaver>well, I searched my entire /nix/store for alignment problems, and icu4c is the only library that contains an improperly sligned segment.
<mark_weaver>*aligned
<mark_weaver>and looking at the build system, it seems that they're doing clever things with the link.
<civodul>mark_weaver: alignment issues in the ELF file?
<mark_weaver>yes, in all of the shared libraries produced by icu4c, there's one segment that's aligned according to the current page size of the kernel, instead of the maximum architecture page size.
<mark_weaver>fortunately, I see that there are new versions of icu. we're using 50.1.1, and there's both 50.1.2 and 52.1.
<mark_weaver>so I can solve my immediate problem by just upgrading.
<civodul>ah, ok
<mark_weaver>(I needed to force a rebuild)
<mark_weaver>it would be nice to fix the underlying problem, of course, but the fact that it seems limited to icu4c makes me less concerned.
<civodul>yeah
<mark_weaver>python, gtk, qt, openldap, and texlive all use icu4c, so I've got some rebuilding to do.
<civodul>ouch, indeed
<civodul>impurities...
<mark_weaver>yep
<mark_weaver>still, we're improving the state of the art on that front quite a bit :)
<civodul>hopefully, yes :-)
<mark_weaver>civodul: should icu be upgraded in master? if so, should it be upgraded to 50.1.2 or 52.1?
<mark_weaver>(on my system I'm upgrading it to 52.1 for now, and will see how that works out)
<mark_weaver>(it's 50.1.1 now)
<civodul>mark_weaver: i guess latest is better?
<mark_weaver>yes, I think so.
<mark_weaver>improvement in 52 include: CLDR 24, Unicode 6.3, Plurals for fractional values, Islamic Umm al-Qura calendar, DateFormat parse leniency controls and Lao dictionary based word segmentation, short weekday names, new time zone format patterns, display context for date format and locale display names.
<mark_weaver>*improvements
<civodul>ok
<civodul>so let's go for 52.1
<mark_weaver>master or core-updates?
<mark_weaver>dependencies are: python, gtk, qt, openldap, and texlive.
<mark_weaver>s/dependencies/referrers/
<civodul>mark_weaver: core-updates is probably more reasonably, then
<mark_weaver>okay
<civodul>good night!