Re: [BLOG] Childhurds and GNU/Hurd substitutes

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

zimoun writes:

Dear Simon,

> Thank you for the help!  I have fun. :-)

Good!

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 16:15, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> I do not know if it was bad luck or if "herd start ssh" does the trick
> but here we go! \o/
>
> $ ssh -p 10022 root@localhost
> The authenticity of host '[localhost]:10022 ([127.0.0.1]:10022)' can't
> be established.
> ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:iETZ8thOyFqk+35g02tRW9FRzLqilgYYlxWr/9xn/kI.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Warning: Permanently added '[localhost]:10022' (ECDSA) to the list of
> known hosts.
> 
> 
>   This is the GNU Hurd.  Welcome.
>
> Thank you.

\o/

>> > Last, I am confused:
>> >
>> >    debian$ guix build hello --target=i586-pc-gnu hello
>> >    /gnu/store/09sz4qsqp3zgnbaxhzppspaxihwmfzll-hello-2.10
>
> [..]
>
>> It's tricky; --target is != --system: --target is a cross-build.  IOW,
>> --system => (%current-system), --target => (%current-target-system).
>>
>> So,
>>
>>     guix build hello --system=i586-gnu hello
>>
>> should give the identical hash.
>
> What is the target?  i586-pc-gnu or i586-gnu?  The blog post mentions
> 'i586-pc-gnu' at the beginning and then 'i586-gnu'.  I suppose it is
> 'i586-gnu' since using this target produces the expected hash.
> What do I miss?

Yeah, this can be confusing.  The target is a triplet
(https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html),
e.g.  i586-pc-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu; system is specified by the
platform, or interpreter name; see e.g. gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:
glibc-dynamic-linker for a list of platforms.

Greetings,
Janneke

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