Subject: bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:18:58 +0100

Hello,

[email-masked] skribis:

> time nice -19 ~/src/guix/pre-inst-env guix system build ~/config.scm
> --system=x86_64-linux
>
> building
> /gnu/store/27raas2bj7sck7vgiicfr2g4h6qrd6ga-activate-service.drv...
> @ unsupported-platform
> /gnu/store/27raas2bj7sck7vgiicfr2g4h6qrd6ga-activate-service.drv
> x86_64-linux
> while setting up the build environment: a `x86_64-linux' is required to
> build
> `/gnu/store/27raas2bj7sck7vgiicfr2g4h6qrd6ga-activate-service.drv', but
> I am a `i686-linux'

An i686 machine cannot run and build software for x86_64.  You would
need to set up offloading to do that, or use
‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’.

So this all looks like “expected” behavior to me.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Ludo’.