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(use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
`((title . "Guix gets cross-compilation support")
(author . "Ludovic Courtès")
(date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 26 6 2013 7200))
(content
div
(p (a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-05/msg00114.html"))
"Recently")
", "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/"))
"Guix")
" gained cross-compilation support. What this means is that existing package definitions can be reused to cross compile packages. So for instance one can cross-compile Guile and its dependencies for MIPS with:"
(br))
(div (@ (class "example"))
(pre "guix build --target=mips64el-linux-gnu guile "))
(p "This may sound like an unexpected feature for a \"package manager\". In fact, it is particularly useful when porting the GNU system distribution to new platforms. The distribution being self-contained, it is bootstrapped from a small set of pre-built binaries. With cross-compilation support, porting to a new platform boils down to "
(a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00147.html"))
"cross-compiling the bootstrap binaries")
" for that platform."
(br)))))
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