Re: Aarch64 build of rust-1.39.0 fails

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Denis,

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> writes:

> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:34:00 +0200
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
>
>> Specifically, try replacing librsvg with librsvg-for-system
> Thanks a lot.
>
> I've now managed to build almost all of the system.scm I was using by
> patching several packages to:
> - use librsvg-for-system instead of librsvg
> - not use gjs for i686
> - disable some or all tests for i686.
>
> I'm currently in the process of converting all that to proper patches.
>
> Though I still have an issue before being able to run guix system
> reconfigure.
>
> If I add gdm in my packages list, it doesn't bring in rust as
> dependencies anymore.
>
> But if I don't comment the following code, it brings rust again:
>> (service gdm-service-type (gdm-configuration (debug? #t) 
>>                                              (wayland? #t)))
> And it does that even without debug and wayland (I didn't test with
> debug and wayland before because the issue in this thread prevented me
> from doing that).

gdm depends on gjs IIRC, which is bound to mozjs, which requires rust.
So you should use another login manager such as lightdm or slim.

HTH!

Maxim