Re: bootstrap guile version mismatch on core-updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

dftxbs3e <address@hidden> skribis:

> It seems that guile2.2 is built by make-bootstrap.scm here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm?h=core-updates#n625
>
> but guile2.0 is expected here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm?h=core-updates#n373
>
> For the purpose of my ongoing port to powerpc64le-linux-gnu, I applied
> the attached patch, but obviously that one wont work with the previously
> built tarballs for x86_64 etc. Things would have to be split in parts
> somehow, for old bootstraps with version 2.0 and newer ones with version
> 2.2.

Indeed.  Could you arrange for your patch to be platform-dependent?

Another option would be to use 2.0 on powerpc64le-linux-gnu as well.

And another one would be to switch everyone to 2.2 sometime.

Thanks,
Ludo’.