| 12 Dec 2024 |
 Alex | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
When we're ready, we need to bootstrap with devtools, binutils and kernel for hydra to run on top of. Basically a bootstrap from scratch because it's natively compiled this time. Does nix have a RISC-V target yet? Last I checked it didn't, and booting Nix natively from e.g. Debian seems like the right place to start a clean bootstrap. | 07:01:35 |
 Tristan Ross | Like the nix package itself? | 07:02:45 |
| Tristan Ross | Nixpkgs itself supports RISC-V | 07:02:59 |
| Tristan Ross | Afaict, the nix package doesn't have RISC-V on the search mentioned. | 07:03:20 |
| Tristan Ross | Oh, search filters out systems the search itself doesn't "recognize" it seems. The nix package has platforms.unix. | 07:04:58 |
| Alex | Yes. It's built from a flake IIRC and lacked riscv64 as a target when I checked over a year ago. | 07:09:58 |
 Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | I'll try building nix with qemu-binfmt on my end and get back when it's done and/or fails. | 07:37:59 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | This will take some days given that it's building gcc, linux-headers, curl, cmake, rustc, curl and what not :D | 07:39:13 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | I wonder if we can bootstrap a minimal nix. | 07:39:31 |
| Alex | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
I'll try building nix with qemu-binfmt on my end and get back when it's done and/or fails. If you mean native Nix via Nixpkgs, that works. NixOS requires it. | 07:59:14 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | Yeah, that's what I started | 07:59:40 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | Just cancelled the build on my m4 and pulled out the 8gb vf2 | 07:59:55 |
 doge.2 | Pratham Patel (you can mention me): thanks for the suggestions, i'll try switching those out and see if they help :) | 12:18:32 |
| doge.2 | hmm, seems like it still wants to build derivations after changing lib.mkForce to lib.mkBefore and nixpkgs to nick cao's fork :\ | 12:31:27 |
| Alex | Increase Nix's verbosity and it will print out information about substitution; this could help debug cache misconfiguration. | 12:34:03 |
| doge.2 | strange, i'm seeing absolutely nothing about substitution now after making said changes | 12:38:37 |
| doge.2 | tried max verbosity (-vvvv) and i saw nothing | 12:38:46 |
 @snaki:kescher.at | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
This will take some days given that it's building gcc, linux-headers, curl, cmake, rustc, curl and what not :D i could offer some x86 build machines with binfmt if that would help | 12:39:00 |
| doge.2 | that's what i've been trying to do, i have a framework laptop 13 running nixos that i've been cross compiling with risc-v, i might be doing it wrong but it doesn't seem to work right for me, idk | 12:40:33 |
| doge.2 | (i spent almost all of yesterday working purely on this project with almost no success) | 12:40:51 |
| Alex | In reply to @doge.2:matrix.org
that's what i've been trying to do, i have a framework laptop 13 running nixos that i've been cross compiling with risc-v, i might be doing it wrong but it doesn't seem to work right for me, idk Do you have a Git repository with the latest changes?
We could take another look to try to figure out why you're not getting cache hits. | 12:53:13 |
| doge.2 | i do, let me upload them to my github repo real quick
(also why is that text red?) | 12:53:44 |
