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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-10-28 22:59:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-10-29 00:08:44 +0100 |
| commit | 72e25e35a53e2833ac1d1d9c312d36ed78b239d6 (patch) | |
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| parent | 011b18c33298a71c6b29fe5bc6ec101fc512c6d8 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 5d92ed5255..054d0af467 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2086,6 +2086,13 @@ one: 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 |