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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-28 22:59:57 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-29 00:08:44 +0100
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doc: Augment the "Porting" section.
Reported by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>. * doc/guix.texi (Porting): Document needed changes to (gnu packages bootstrap) and (gnu packages linux).
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guix build --target=armv5tel-linux-gnueabi bootstrap-tarballs
@end example
+Once these are built, the @code{(gnu packages bootstrap)} module needs
+to be updated to refer to these binaries on the target platform. In
+addition, the @code{glibc-dynamic-linker} procedure in that module must
+be augmented to return the right file name for libc's dynamic linker on
+that platform; likewise, @code{system->linux-architecture} in @code{(gnu
+packages linux)} must be taught about the new platform.
+
In practice, there may be some complications. First, it may be that the
extended GNU triplet that specifies an ABI (like the @code{eabi} suffix
above) is not recognized by all the GNU tools. Typically, glibc