Re: [Nix-dev] Merging ‘stdenv-updates’?

[Lluís Batlle]

There is another task to do at least, some day, to get less copies of
some basic code:
merge the gnat-wrapper and the ghdl-wrapper into gcc-wrapper.
This can be done later, of course, but in the next stdenv-updates as
this will cause stdenv rebuilds.

I've been doing nixos-rebuilds the last week in the sheevaplug, and
they worked. I've not tried to build xorg with kde, and I will not try
to, but all I needed was working, I think. I have to tweak the kernel
settings for the sheevaplug kernel to work, but I think I will get
that soon. Mostly, I'm having usb-storage problems, I don't know why.
I suspect of some usb-storage drivers not built into the sheevaplug
kernel, them waiting for someone to enable them in the .config.

I will test some basic cross builds in the next days. I want to build
uboot properly at least, and it would be nice if we could build the
kernel.

2010/1/5 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Hello Nixers!
>
> I think it’s high time we merged ‘stdenv-updates’ into ‘trunk’.  There’s
> a wealth of nice new things in there!
>
> There’ll be a Coreutils release in the next few days, which I think we
> can wait.  Glibc 2.11.1 was released a few days ago but the ports
> tarball isn’t available so I guess we’ll stick to 2.11.  Marc has an
> ALSA-lib patch that could get in before we merge.  Anything else?
>
> Other than that, non-GNU platforms are somewhat broken:
>
>  - The Darwin box has apparently been unavailable for some time and
>    hasn’t rebuilt ‘stdenv-updates’ lately, and I suspect it’s broken.
>
>  - Bash 4.1 fails to build on Cygwin
>    (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/206156).
>
>  - The dependencies of GCC 4.4 fail to build on non-GNU platforms
>    (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/2382).
>
>  - The BSD ports suffer from not using GNU Coreutils, notably because
>    some builders use GNU-specific options (e.g., ‘cp -v’,
>    http://hydra.nixos.org/build/205890/nixlog/1/tail).  So currently no
>    BSD port works.
>
> I suggest leaving a few days to the people interested in BSD and
> {Cyg,Dar}win to look into these issues, then merge.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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