bug#33330: Hurd failing to build

[Brett Gilio]

Manolis Ragkousis writes:

> Hello Ludo,
>
> On 11/11/18 6:44 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello Brett,
>> 
>> Brett Gilio <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>>> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>> configure: error: this is the gnu os, host cannot be linux-gnu
>>> *** Host configuration must be `MACHINE-gnu' or `MACHINE-VENDOR-gnu'.
>>> *** To cross-compile, you must specify both --host and --build;
>>> *** for example `--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-gnu'.
>>> *** Run ./configure --help for more information.
>> 
>> To put it differently, the Hurd cannot be built natively on GNU/Linux.
>> You can cross-build the Hurd from GNU/Linux with something like:
>> 
>>   guix build hurd --target=i586-pc-gnu
>> 
>> … though I seem to remember even that is broken in current master.
>
>
> Yes, I am currently trying to fix this.
>
> Manolis

Thank you Ludo and Manolis for the input, here. If you need help with
anything here, please let me know.

Brett