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<habstinat>Can Guix alpha be bootstrapped from mips64el to run independently yet? Or must it run alongside another GNU/Linuxen?

<civodul>Hello Guixers!

<handheldCar>hey civodul

<handheldCar>habstinat had a question about booting on mips64el.

<civodul>aaah

<civodul>i'm all ears :-)

<habstinat>handheldCar: Ah yes; sorry I meant to idle overnight but my laptop hibernated

<handheldCar>no problem, I don't think this

<handheldCar>Guix hacker was present at the time

<habstinat>I was just curious about Guix; I'm running gNewSense on my Yeeloong right now but I was wondering if Guix is at the point where it's possible to boostrap a Guix alpha install on mips64el that's bootable without using any parts from another GNU/Linux

<civodul>habstinat: so currently, Guix is not standalone: it allows you to install packages on top of a running GNU/Linux system

<civodul>that should be fixed within a couple of months, hopefully

<civodul>as for MIPS: there's an mips64el branch, which allows packages to be built on mips64el/N32

<civodul>but there were discussions that N64 would be preferable

<civodul>so that's where we're heading now

<civodul>i'm personally working on the cross-compilation of the "bootstrap binaries"

<habstinat>civodul: Yes; I saw that in the archives which is what peaked my interest in this project

<civodul>ok

<habstinat>OK; great; I may try Guix out later this week. Thanks for the info.

<civodul>you're welcome

<civodul>don't hesitate to chime in here or on the ML if you have any issues/questions

<Steap>| | substitution of `/nix/store/mvpy4wa7dq8z5f4s5c1gmjh4jplyiw2a-git-1.8.2.2': trying next substituter

<Steap>| | starting substituter program `/home/cyril/guix/nix/scripts/substitute-binary'

<Steap>I'm stuck here when trying to build git

<Steap>Weirdest thing is I used "--no-substitutes"

<Steap>any idea what's wrong

<Steap>?

<Steap>oh nope, it's working

<Steap>It juste took quite a long time to start

<Steap>weird

<Steap>Funny, I removed "--no-substitutes" and it's taking quite a long time doing... nothing

<Steap>does this happen to anyone else ?

<civodul>Steap: yes, hydra.gnu.org is stuck

<civodul>i haven't restarted it, because i'm testing an improvement for that situation :-)

<civodul>but if you use --no-substitutes, then there's no problem

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