[Nix-dev] A few questions about ARM support and NixOS on a Chromebook

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

I have the bootstrap-tools for armv5tel, they build and the test passes.

https://github.com/viric/nixpkgs/tree/make_arm_bootstraptools

Now I try to go further building release-14.12 stdenv.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:19:49PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> I have the busybox.. but that's not enough.
> 
> Eelco updated the bootstrap tools in the 29th of October, but I cannot find why.
> The new bootstrap tools include different binaries.
> 
> Eelco updated the stdenv scripts to accomodate the new tools, but without
> updating arm or mips tools, hence breaking them. One approach could have been to
> have kept the old stdenv scripts for arm/mips.
> 
> Can anyone point me to the reasons of the change, so I can try to work in that
> same direction? Or restore old bootstrap tools scripts.
> 
> Regards,
> Lluís.
> 
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