Re: Porting to mips64el

[Andreas Enge]

Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> The bootstrap binaries don’t matter much, I think.  What does matter is
> to get ‘gcc-boot0’ (a fake cross-compiler) to target the right ABI by
> default.  I’m not sure how to do that, though.

I think it might be enough to add the following configure flags:
   --with-arch=mips64 -with-abi=64
I will give it a try.

Before downloading tarballs, the following frightening warning messages are 
shown:

@ build-started /nix/store/lpws7l6w3za1i8c0s4aij94jh8k9vk9p-module-import-
compiled.drv /nix/store/5yx0igcz2ng9wnik260gapxaqzsn3p6l-module-import-
compiled mips64el-linux 
/usr/local/guix/var/log/nix/drvs/lpws7l6w3za1i8c0s4aij94jh8k9vk9p-module-
import-compiled.drv.bz2
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:110:17: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`make-session'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:110:17: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`connection-end/client'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:111:4: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`set-session-transport-fd!'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:112:4: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`set-session-default-priority!'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:113:4: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`set-session-credentials!'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:113:38: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`make-certificate-credentials'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:119:4: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`handshake'
;;; /nix/store/7rz9j519bif6y62sh4wj3mij8jalpw5i-module-
import/guix/build/download.scm:120:4: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`session-record-port'
@ build-succeeded /nix/store/lpws7l6w3za1i8c0s4aij94jh8k9vk9p-module-
import-compiled.drv /nix/store/5yx0igcz2ng9wnik260gapxaqzsn3p6l-module-
import-compiled

After that things seem to proceed normally.

Andreas