From bdbb6fbb1999f7bb8bed6e0ca8e50197d58a00f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 00:13:00 +0200 Subject: Update `NEWS'. --- NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 10188d2d11..3a946ec59d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,10 +14,24 @@ Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2) ** Package management + +*** Cross-compilation support + +Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with +the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level, +the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages +of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for +details. + *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” See the manual for details. +*** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” + +This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails +to download a substitute. + ** Bugs fixed *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed @@ -25,6 +39,8 @@ See the manual for details. These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary. See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details. +*** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity + * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1) ** Package management -- cgit v1.2.3