Subject: Re: bug#40006: [core-updates] Merge wip-hurd

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:51:10 +0200

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:25:32PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:
> 
> > Hello Guix'y supporters of the Hurd,
> 
> `wip-hurd' is now pushed to core-updates as
> 
>     3a1c3642d4d611c5516a8ba5b6bc7e39bdc1c9ae
> 
> As discussed on IRC yesterday, we did it in two stages: we first
> merged all work necessary to build sensible bootstrap binaries
> to core-updates:
> 
>     3342a1182b15ec031f0ec6f602fd96c1dca3d4b0
> 
> then we build bootstrap binaries and verified the result, producing
> this commit message
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> On 3342a1182b15ec031f0ec6f602fd96c1dca3d4b0
>    gnu: make-bootstrap: Use _IOLBF on Guile 2.0 only.
> 
> Run
>     ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs --verbosity=1
> 
> Producing
> 
>     /gnu/store/lhca65c997pvic5cfrpm0dasniwqlg2a-bootstrap-tarballs-0
> 
> With guix hash -rx /gnu/store/lhca65c997pvic5cfrpm0dasniwqlg2a-bootstrap-tarballs-0
> 
>     07jnq2by98f2a45k8wd2gj62iazvwfa4z7p3w3id4m1g0fdsvc3b
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Next up is to work towards getting a bootable guix image for the Hurd
> and other porting work in the Debian VM.
> 
> See:
> 
>     https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/blob/wip-hurd-system/THE-HURD
> 
> but that's a whole other stage of effort, I'm tempted to close this bug
> and open a new one (or two?) for that.  WYDT?
> 
> Greetings,
> janneke
> 

There's bootstrap binaries now existing, I'd say that counts as merging
in Hurd support.

Congrats!

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