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  over 6 years ago by jbrielmaier | Reply

  The main difficulty was that the bootstrap-tarballs (./pre-inst-env guix build bootstrap-tarballs --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu) cross builds glibc@2.27 for powerpc64le. This version needs to be compiled with gcc >= 6.2 due to __float128 support. The problem here is, that Guix uses gcc@5.5 as bootstrap compiler.

  I tried out different strategies in then first place to work-around a compiler update, which is always painful and time consuming. All of them weren't successful (e.g. patching __float128 out from glibc), so I did the compiler update. I don't came far due to different compilation errors...

  I also updated and tested (heavily) the not-long-ago released guix 0.15 in openSUSE. For Tumbleweed and Leap 15.0 it can be found in the devel-languages-misc repo . The submit request for Tumbleweed is still pending, but should be merged soon :)

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The main difficulty was that the bootstrap-tarballs (`./pre-inst-env guix build bootstrap-tarballs --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu`) cross builds glibc@2.27 for powerpc64le. This version needs to be compiled with gcc >= 6.2 due to `__float128` support. The problem here is, that Guix uses gcc@5.5 as bootstrap compiler. I tried out different strategies in then first place to work-around a compiler update, which is always painful and time consuming. All of them weren't successful (e.g. patching `__float128` out from glibc), so I did the compiler update. I don't came far due to different compilation errors... I also updated and tested (heavily) the not-long-ago released guix 0.15 in openSUSE. For Tumbleweed and Leap 15.0 it can be found in the devel-languages-misc [repo](https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:languages:misc) . The [submit request](https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/622346) for Tumbleweed is still pending, but should be merged soon :)
 
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The main difficulty was that the bootstrap-tarballs (./pre-inst-env guix build bootstrap-tarballs --target=powerpc64le-linux-gnu) cross builds glibc@2.27 for powerpc64le. This version needs to be compiled with gcc >= 6.2 due to __float128 support. The problem here is, that Guix uses gcc@5.5 as bootstrap compiler.
I tried out different strategies in then first place to work-around a compiler update, which is always painful and time consuming. All of them weren't successful (e.g. patching __float128 out from glibc), so I did the compiler update. I don't came far due to different compilation errors...
I also updated and tested (heavily) the not-long-ago released guix 0.15 in openSUSE. For Tumbleweed and Leap 15.0 it can be found in the devel-languages-misc repo . The submit request for Tumbleweed is still pending, but should be merged soon :)
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This is an [link to example.com](http://example.com/)

This is an image ![an openSUSE geeko icon](https://en.opensuse.org/images/d/d0/Icon-distribution.png)

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