Re: 32-bit builds on 64-bit hardware/VMs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:52:18PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> As a start, could you comment out in ‘machines-for-berlin.scm’ the
>> machines that need to be removed in order to not run 32-bit builds in
>> potentially buggy environments?
>
> already done by Danny in commit 81b5eab1a85196725895502637e2540a1535ce8b
> of the maintenance repository.

Great.

> However, that leaves only two machines for armhf. If we had an image
> for the Novena board, I could set up one or two more :) In any case,
> it will not be enough to keep up with the architecture.

Indeed, at this stage we’re almost giving up on ARMv7 substitutes.  :-/

If you feel like fiddling with the Novenas, I’m sure you could ‘guix
system init /’ them.  You need to be very careful about the bootloader
choice and all, but that should be feasible.

Thanks,
Ludo’.