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| author | Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> | 2018-05-16 15:05:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> | 2018-05-17 20:37:27 +0300 |
| commit | 162825f9653f1ba050e40f0ca96d1eb3491a9207 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ce31d553d562e0eacf32edeed68e6354f9279e7 /doc | |
| parent | 17aca5c4d273c1f514f8623e555660b99ed90fee (diff) | |
daemon: Allow building for armhf-linux on aarch64-linux.
* nix/libstore/build.cc (canBuildLocally): Allow building armhf-linux
builds on aarch64-linux.
(DerivationGoal::runChild) Throw error if attempting to build for
armhf-linux on an unsupported platform.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix build): Document how to build natively
for armhf-linux on aarch64-linux. Add note that on some aarch64
machines this is unsupported.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a12210db8a..005c0597ad 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5855,9 +5855,16 @@ information on cross-compilation. An example use of this is on Linux-based systems, which can emulate different personalities. For instance, passing -@code{--system=i686-linux} on an @code{x86_64-linux} system allows you +@code{--system=i686-linux} on an @code{x86_64-linux} system or +@code{--system=armhf-linux} on an @code{aarch64-linux} system allows you to build packages in a complete 32-bit environment. +@quotation Note +Building for an @code{armhf-linux} system is unconditionally enabled on +@code{aarch64-linux} machines, although certain aarch64 chipsets do not +allow for this functionality, notably the ThunderX. +@end quotation + Similarly, when transparent emulation with QEMU and @code{binfmt_misc} is enabled (@pxref{Virtualization Services, @code{qemu-binfmt-service-type}}), you can build for any system for |