Subject: bug#19749: orpheus does not build on mips64

From: Andreas Enge <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:20:21 +0100

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:04:38AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> The config.guess problem can be easily worked around by passing
> --build=<triplet> to configure.  I would suggest something similar to
> what I did in the gmp package to get it working on armhf:
>    (arguments `(#:configure-flags
>                 '(;; Build a "fat binary", with routines for several
>                   ;; sub-architectures.
>                   "--enable-fat"
>                   "--enable-cxx"
> 
>                   ;; FIXME: gmp-6.0.0a's config.guess fails on
>                   ;; multi-core armhf systems.
>                   ,@(if (%current-target-system)
>                         '()
>                         (let ((triplet
>                                (nix-system->gnu-triplet (%current-system))))
>                           (list (string-append "--build=" triplet)))))))
> Would you like to try this?

Alternatively, could we not simply copy a newer config.guess as a patch
into the source tree? If yes, what would be preferable?

Andreas