<tomberek>
Hello, I'm trying get nix onto an armv7, but I'm not having much luck with either building from source or cross compiling from my host.
<sphalerite>
tomberek: what I did was start from a debian system, build nix just using make/make install in there, then building nix through that bootstrap nix
<sphalerite>
andi-: you were working on getting java bootstrapping more nicely, right? Any luck with that?
<tomberek>
sphalerite: that's what i'm trying... .ran into compilation erros
<andi->
sphalerite: not really luck.. it still decides to build amd64 instead since it sees a 64bit host..
<tomberek>
yep....... well, this is already a bit of yak-shaving... I have both ubuntu with Nix and NixOS available, can't either just cross-compile? I got failures during the build for perl.
<sphalerite>
no, cross-compilation is still in a state of flux for nix/nixpkgs
<sphalerite>
also ARM support in general is still very much WIP so there will probably be a lot of yak-shaving involved in getting it working. If you just want to use your ARM device, ubuntu or debian are still a much better bet for now unfortunately
<andi->
Mic92: everyone patches openjdk. Ever heard of icedtea? That's a patch collection for openjdk m(
<Mic92>
andi-: has icedtea still any pratical relevance?
<Mic92>
mhm, maybe IPMI vnc consoles
<gchristensen>
yeah pretty much that
<gchristensen>
sometimes crappy web-based corporate accounting software
<andi->
Mic92: it is a lot saner if you plan to compile openjdk... Has its own issues.. May next attempt will be icedtea + the Debian basted bootstrap to create a bootstrap for us...
<andi->
If you want to do that: go for it.. My hate for java is growing
<gchristensen>
would you say the hate for java is ... brewing?
<Mic92>
andi-: sorry. I have different stuff to work on.
<andi->
gchristensen: /o\
<disasm>
can we just let java die already? :)
<andi->
Yeesls!!
<disasm>
really the only things I use java for anymore are jenkins, elasticsearch and graylog :)
<andi->
And random build systems... E.g. bazel
<disasm>
would love to see someone clone ES in pretty much any language but java, lol
<disasm>
well, or .net that would be worst
<andi->
Can we run .net core already in aarch64?
<disasm>
haha
<Dezgeg>
new versions of mono do run :)
<andi->
Great. Probably because the entire build system is not a complete clusterfuckup like with openjdk
<gchristensen>
disasm: they'd have to port the underlying search tool too :/