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Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems - activation-service-error

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From: swedebugia <at> riseup.net
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 33841-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33841: Building x86-64 on i686 not possible it seems -
 activation-service-error
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 02:34:57 -0800

On 2019-01-05 19:46, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi swedebugia,
> 
>>>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’.
> […]
>> OK. Would it be OK to state this somewhere in the manual or am I the
>> only on trying to upgrade from 32->64 bit?
> 
> I'd prefer not to add this to the manual as it is not particular to
> Guix.  x86_64 is the outlier here, as it has a i686 persona.  Generally,
> you cannot build software for a different architecture without a cross
> toolchain (not applicable for Guix) or emulation (e.g. via
> qemu-binfmt-service-type).

Ok, thanks, closing this.

-- 
Cheers 
Swedebugia

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