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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 22:57:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 22:57:09 +0100 |
| commit | 9149f1a08731de1db63536e4a29480b769f7e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9595fea1f5fe100a1faa760cb17b2e8ba33f4605 | |
| parent | b30e4f3f125d2d23647609f1ff5c1e784e72c196 (diff) | |
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doc: Update porting instructions in `HACKING'.
* HACKING (When the platform is supported by Nixpkgs): Update
instructions.
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 29 |
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@@ -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. |