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Guile-Git cross-compiled to i586-pc-gnu gets bytestructures wrong

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From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 44000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44000: Guile-Git cross-compiled to i586-pc-gnu gets bytestructures wrong
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:58:11 +0200

On 15.10.2020 09:42, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:
> 
>> The problem is that the ‘cond-expand’ used to define ‘arch32bit?’ is a
>> expansion-time thing when (cross-)building Bytestructures itself, so
>> it’s incorrect from cross-building from 64-bit to 32-bit.
>>
>> I believe that changing it to:
>>
>>   (define arch32bit? (memq data-model '(ilp32 lp32)))
>>
>> would fix it because then the test would happen at run time.
> 
> I confirm that the attached patch for Bytestructures solves the problem
> (running ‘guix pull’ in my childhurd :-)).
> 
> Let’s see whether it needs to be adapted for inclusion upstream.

Hi Ludo,

Thanks for finding finding this bug and for the patch.

I'll try to include a portable version of the fix ASAP.  I should have
time for it tomorrow.

> 
> Ludo’.
> 


- Taylan

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