In reply to @j-k:matrix.org
3 failed tests on bison

We have to use custom boot firmware since we do not support

StarFive's Fedora MMC partition layout. Thus, we include this in

the image's firmware partition so the user can flash the custom firmware.

anything I need to do here or will it be done automatically?

We have to use custom boot firmware since we do not support
StarFive's Fedora MMC partition layout. Thus, we include this in
the image's firmware partition so the user can flash the custom firmware.

anything I need to do here or will it be done automatically?

In reply to @j-k:matrix.org
I'm just assuming this is an issue introduced by binfmt so I'm back to x86_64-linux cross compiling. currently on the kernel

In reply to @rick:matrix.ciphernetics.nl
Sounds like some good tests :)

I had a look into gnu autotest but I couldn't see an easy way to get some more useful debug logs :(

here's the shortlist of the failing tests:

2: Invalid number of arguments                       FAILED (input.at:29)
64: Deprecated directives                            FAILED (input.at:3031)
314: Invalid uses of %empty                          FAILED (actions.at:192)

it mentions some stuff about log outputs but I didn't go too deep on it

nix on fedora will do for now :D

[riscv@fedora-starfive nixtest]$ nix flake show --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes"
[28.5 MiB DL]
warning: creating lock file '/home/riscv/nixtest/flake.lock'
path:/home/riscv/nixtest?lastModified=1653588931&narHash=sha256-f42UZVlY8XbnjxqF55IKgebs%2fYWtcskSH9zH3J2NlW0=
├───defaultPackage
│   └───x86_64-linux: package 'hello-2.12'
└───packages
    └───x86_64-linux
        └───hello: package 'hello-2.12'
[riscv@fedora-starfive nixtest]$
[riscv@fedora-starfive nixtest]$ uname -a
Linux fedora-starfive 5.15.10+ #1 SMP Fri Dec 24 14:24:27 CST 2021 riscv64 riscv64 riscv64 GNU/Linux

[riscv@fedora-starfive nixtest]$ systemctl status nix-daemon
● nix-daemon.service - Nix Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/nix/store/ykfmk9wvh2v737njahn0m3g19vbxl25w-nix-2.8.1-riscv64-unknown-linux-g>
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-05-27 02:12:18 CST; 4min 57s ago
TriggeredBy: ● nix-daemon.socket
       Docs: man:nix-daemon
             https://nixos.org/manual
   Main PID: 2532 (nix-daemon)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 8532)
     Memory: 387.8M
        CPU: 33.566s
     CGroup: /system.slice/nix-daemon.service
             └─2532 nix-daemon --daemon

May 27 02:12:18 fedora-starfive systemd[1]: Started Nix Daemon.
May 27 02:14:07 fedora-starfive nix-daemon[2532]: accepted connection from pid 2583, user riscv
May 27 02:14:18 fedora-starfive nix-daemon[2532]: accepted connection from pid 2602, user riscv
[riscv@fedora-starfive nixtest]$

to get the tarball I just added riscv as a cross target and I needed a newer copy of boost

diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index c464b8f7c..a32ab2a68 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
       linuxSystems = linux64BitSystems ++ [ "i686-linux" ];
       systems = linuxSystems ++ [ "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-darwin" ];
 
-      crossSystems = [ "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux" ];
+      crossSystems = [ "armv6l-linux" "armv7l-linux" "riscv64-linux" ];
 
       stdenvs = [ "gccStdenv" "clangStdenv" "clang11Stdenv" "stdenv" ];
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
         configureFlags =
           lib.optionals stdenv.isLinux [
-            "--with-boost=${boost}/lib"
+            "--with-boost=${boost173}/lib"
             "--with-sandbox-shell=${sh}/bin/busybox"
             "LDFLAGS=-fuse-ld=gold"
           ];
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
             bzip2 xz brotli editline
             openssl sqlite
             libarchive
-            boost
+            boost173
             lowdown-nix
             gtest
           ]
@@ -302,14 +302,14 @@
 
             propagatedBuildInputs = propagatedDeps;
 
-            disallowedReferences = [ boost ];
+            disallowedReferences = [ boost173 ];
 
             preConfigure =
               ''
                 # Copy libboost_context so we don't get all of Boost in our closure.
                 # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45462
                 mkdir -p $out/lib
-                cp -pd ${boost}/lib/{libboost_context*,libboost_thread*,libboost_system*} $out/lib
+                cp -pd ${boost173}/lib/{libboost_context*,libboost_thread*,libboost_system*} $out/lib
                 rm -f $out/lib/*.a
                 ${lib.optionalString currentStdenv.isLinux ''
                   chmod u+w $out/lib/*.so.*
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
                     chmod u+w $LIB
                     install_name_tool -id $LIB $LIB
                   done
-                  install_name_tool -change ${boost}/lib/libboost_system.dylib $out/lib/libboost_system.dylib $out/lib/libboost_thread.dylib
+                  install_name_tool -change ${boost173}/lib/libboost_system.dylib $out/lib/libboost_system.dylib $out/lib/libboost_thread.dylib
                 ''}
               '';
 
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
               echo "doc manual $doc/share/doc/nix/manual" >> $doc/nix-support/hydra-build-products
               ${lib.optionalString currentStdenv.isDarwin ''
               install_name_tool \
-                -change ${boost}/lib/libboost_context.dylib \
+                -change ${boost173}/lib/libboost_context.dylib \
                 $out/lib/libboost_context.dylib \
                 $out/lib/libnixutil.dylib
               ''}

nix build .#hydraJobs.binaryTarballCross.x86_64-linux.riscv64-linux

In reply to @astro:envs.net
mine arrived today and a few fellow hackers immediately got interested when I unpacked it