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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-08 22:57:09 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-08 22:57:09 +0100
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doc: Update porting instructions in `HACKING'.
* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update instructions.
-rw-r--r--HACKING29
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 3ff6040623..79697a141c 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and its incredible distro
-Copyright © 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -106,26 +106,10 @@ GCC, libc, etc. need to be built. To that end, run the following
commands:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
- ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
- -e '(@@ (distro packages base) %guile-bootstrap-tarball)' \
+ ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
+ -e '(@ (distro packages make-bootstrap) bootstrap-tarballs)' \
--system=i686-linux
-
- ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
- -e '(@@ (distro packages base) %bootstrap-binaries-tarball)' \
- --system=i686-linux
-
- ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
- -e '(@@ (distro packages base) %binutils-bootstrap-tarball)' \
- --system=i686-linux
-
- ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
- -e '(@@ (distro packages base) %glibc-bootstrap-tarball)' \
- --system=i686-linux
-
- ./pre-inst-env guix-build \
- -e '(@@ (distro packages base) %gcc-bootstrap-tarball)' \
- --system=i686-linux
-
+
#+END_SRC
These should build tarballs containing statically-linked tools usable on
@@ -135,12 +119,11 @@ In the source tree, you need to install binaries for ‘mkdir’, ‘bash’,
‘tar’, and ‘xz’ under ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux’. These
binaries can be extracted from the static-binaries tarball built above.
-A rule for
-‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-bootstrap-2.0.6.tar.xz’
+A rule for ‘distro/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/guile-2.0.7.tar.xz’
needs to be added in ‘Makefile.am’, with the appropriate hexadecimal
vrepresentation of its SHA256 hash.
-You may then revert your changes to ‘base.scm’. For the variables
+You may then revert your changes to ‘bootstrap.scm’. For the variables
‘%bootstrap-coreutils&co’, ‘%bootstrap-binutils’, ‘%bootstrap-glibc’,
and ‘%bootstrap-gcc’, the expected SHA256 of the corresponding tarballs
for ‘i686-linux’ (built above) must be added.