[Nix-dev] Current path to installing on Raspberry Pi?

[Jeffrey David Johnson]

Don't think I'm brave enough quite yet. Getting closer though! Planning to do my first (unrelated) pull request tonight :D Thanks for the help. It sounds like a lot of progress is being made on the ARM build stuff so I'll just follow it for now and pitch out if there's something to do that doesn't suck so much time away from school. I would donate one of my two Raspberry Pis to the effort, except that won't help much because they aren't fast enough to compile on right?
Jeff

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:45:49 +0000
Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:

> :-/ Looks like your build is very broken... maybe ld-linux.so, the runtime
> linker, doesn't work?
> There was never a hydra job for Nix on arm it seems.
> If you're feeling brave you could try cross-compiling yourself:
> https://nixos.org/wiki/CrossCompiling
> 
> Wout.
> 
> On Sat Jan 24 2015 at 4:44:47 AM Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > OK I'm a little lost. The shell is doing something weird, but I'm not sure
> > what. When I `_NIXOS_REBUILD_REEXEC=1 nixos-rebuild switch`, it says:
> >
> > /run/current-system/sw/bin/nixos-rebuild: like 141:
> > /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-instantiate: cannot execute binary file
> > building the system configuration...
> > /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-build: line 3: user: command not found
> > ... that repeats for each line up to 18 ...
> >
> > If I try to run nix-instantiate directly it has the same "cannot execute
> > binary file" error, which means it's mistakenly being interpreted by bash
> > too right? I tried `perl $(which nixos-rebuild) switch`, but same error.
> >
> > The other thing I tried is looking for older builds. Somebody reported
> > being able to upgrade to 13.10 in September, so if I take a build of nix
> > from then maybe it'll still work. But I can't find the armv6l ones listed
> > anywhere on the hydra site. Is it possible to find them without knowing the
> > hash URL already?
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Oh that makes sense. Might not be too hard to fix either. I'll try
> >> when I get home tonight. Thanks!
> >>
> >> On 1/23/15, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > those errors seem to come from a shell trying to interpret perl
> >> source...
> >> >
> >> > On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 9:04:34 PM Jeff Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi all! I just tried to install NixOS on my Raspberry Pi following the
> >> >> wiki page (https://nixos.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi). I think I got pretty
> >> >> close, but not quite all the way. I wrote the image to an sd card,
> >> booted
> >> >> it up, logged in as root, changed the nix-channel from unstable to
> >> 13.10,
> >> >> and tried to upgrade with:
> >> >>
> >> >> nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> >> >>
> >> >> It gave an error about needing at least nix 1.7 to parse the current
> >> nix
> >> >> expressions. I found the latest build and installed it following the
> >> >> directions on the wiki (
> >> >>
> >> https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_update_when_nix_is_too_old_to_evaluate_nixpkgs
> >> >> ):
> >> >>
> >> >> nix-install-package --non-interactive --url
> >> >>
> >> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/18524521/nix/pkg/nix-1.8-armv6l-linux.nixpkg
> >> >>
> >> >> That appeared to work, but now when I rerun the upgrade command I get
> >> an
> >> >> error from the perl interpreter:
> >> >>
> >> >> [root at nixos:~]# nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
> >> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 3: use: command not found
> >> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 4: use: command not found
> >> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 5: use: command not found
> >> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 6: syntax error near
> >> unexpected
> >> >> token '('
> >> >> /root/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel: line 6: `use File::Path
> >> qw(mkpath);'
> >> >>
> >> >> I tried moving /root/.nix-profile but the version in /nix/var/... that
> >> it
> >> >> falls back on gives the same error. Do I need to manually find and
> >> >> install
> >> >> some dependencies?
> >> >> Thanks
> >> >> Jeff
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> >> >
> >>
> >
> >