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Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Zacchaeus Scheffer <zaccysc <at> gmail.com>, 50858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50858: Installing git-annex for aarch64 fails on ghc build
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:16:59 +0200

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Zacchaeus Scheffer schreef op ma 27-09-2021 om 18:28 [-0400]:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> I'm trying to install git-annex for aarch64,

Are you doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu or --system=aarch64-linux?
The current package definition needs bootstrap binaries, which currently
are only defined for x86_64-linux and i686-linux, so --system=aarch64-linux
cannot work.

Doing --target=aarch64-linux-gnu should work though (untested).

>  but it fails on the following line:
> 
> \ 'configure-bin' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/b6j0zdnbpdhx81npbk25m4nls5y1h3f5-ghc-7.10.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
> 
> I have attached the log for the failed ghc build.  The first error there seems to be:
> 
> /tmp/guix-build-ghc-7.10.2.drv-0/ghc-7.10.2/ghc-bin/ghc-7.8.4/utils/ghc-pwd/dist-install/build/tmp/ghc-pwd: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> 
> Seeing as this works fine for x86, I'm guessing that a ghc-pwd is being used that was compiled for x86, maybe an error in setting up cross compiling?
> 
> Thanks,
> Zacchae

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