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* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update
  instructions.
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Ludovic Courtès 2013-01-08 22:57:09 +01:00
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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and its incredible distro
Copyright © 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@ -106,26 +106,10 @@ GCC, libc, etc. need to be built. To that end, run the following
commands:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@@ (distro packages base) %guile-bootstrap-tarball)' \
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@ (distro packages make-bootstrap) bootstrap-tarballs)' \
--system=i686-linux
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@@ (distro packages base) %bootstrap-binaries-tarball)' \
--system=i686-linux
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@@ (distro packages base) %binutils-bootstrap-tarball)' \
--system=i686-linux
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@@ (distro packages base) %glibc-bootstrap-tarball)' \
--system=i686-linux
./pre-inst-env guix-build \
-e '(@@ (distro packages base) %gcc-bootstrap-tarball)' \
--system=i686-linux
#+END_SRC
These should build tarballs containing statically-linked tools usable on
@ -135,12 +119,11 @@ In the source tree, you need to install binaries for ‘mkdir’, ‘bash’,
‘tar’, and ‘xz’ under ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux’. These
binaries can be extracted from the static-binaries tarball built above.
A rule for
‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-bootstrap-2.0.6.tar.xz’
A rule for ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz’
needs to be added in ‘Makefile.am’, with the appropriate hexadecimal
vrepresentation of its SHA256 hash.
You may then revert your changes to ‘base.scm’. For the variables
You may then revert your changes to ‘bootstrap.scm’. For the variables
‘%bootstrap-coreutils&co’, ‘%bootstrap-binutils’, ‘%bootstrap-glibc’,
and ‘%bootstrap-gcc’, the expected SHA256 of the corresponding tarballs
for ‘i686-linux’ (built above) must be added.