Live bootstrap to guix by vxtls · Pull Request #578 · fosslinux/live-bootstrap

vxtls · 2026-03-15T01:44:32Z

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…stsuite argp-standalone pass1 builds in a separate build directory. Its testsuite compiles sources that include <argp.h>, but without an explicit include path the header in the source root is not found and build fails. Set: - CPPFLAGS=-I/Users/luoyanpan/CLionProjects/guix/live-bootstrap/.. in src_configure so testsuite objects can resolve argp.h during the normal phase.

…olchain instead of relying on make install

…into manifest

…generation and fts/argp env wiring

…argp env wiring

…al LIBS and setting host/build + kernel-toolchain env

…ied sha256 and wire it before elfutils

…with static zlib

…d build stages

…hs, and disable unused-but-set-variable as error

…compress, and debuginfod client

…mpile via rpath-link and explicit LIBS

…ntamination

…t untouched

feat(steps-guix): add libgcrypt-1.12.1 default build with gcc-detected host and pkg-config path feat(steps-guix): add guile-gcrypt-0.5.0 with dynamic libgcrypt prefix and ld library path

…and end with shared after

… new sources

… out-of-tree build

…IR for libgcrypt lookup

… LIBDIR

…after script

…mtab hack

…_fhs

…trol flow

…ck patch

vxtls · 2026-04-06T16:52:26Z

Got through the bootstrap proper (had to restart once because one of guile-3.0.9's checks locked up - AFAIK this is a known sporadic issue, I seem to remember seeing it before when trying to bootstrap Guix on various platforms), but then immediately after "Computing Guix derivation", as it tries to switch from the "installed" Guix to the one in local-channels, it dies with the familiar system() "No such file or directory" error.

The fix is simple: apply remove-environment-variables-system-call.patch also in guix-daemon-and-pull.sh. With that fixed, the build is now proceeding agian.

So, has this issue been resolved or not?

Googulator · 2026-04-06T19:13:11Z

Resolved, yes. Now, there's a new issue: one of the tests for util-linux, related to user namespace handling, is failing. The cause: CONFIG_USER_NS disabled in the kernel configuration. I'm gonna set it to Y, and try again.

…e dir

…ing, readablity improvements(src_dir -> channel_repo)

Googulator · 2026-04-06T20:46:54Z

With CONFIG_USER_NS=y in kconfig, util-linux's tests now pass, and Guix moves on to building Valgrind.

vxtls · 2026-04-06T20:54:06Z

With CONFIG_USER_NS=y in kconfig, util-linux's tests now pass, and Guix moves on to building Valgrind.

Wait, what stage are you at right now? Are you on guix pull or guix system image?

Googulator · 2026-04-06T21:39:22Z

guix pull still, but past the initial bootstrap AKA commencement.scm

Googulator · 2026-04-08T00:23:39Z

Ran into and debugged another issue: when building guix-manual, I get the following error:

In unknown file:
           0 (copy-file "/gnu/store/1n4lagn25hylvrn9x9v2qjf0r0dj9sby-doc/os-config-desktop.texi" "./os-config-desktop.texi")

ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

The cause: when this call is executed, ./os-config-desktop.texi already exists in the build directory, with read-only permissions.
That copy is generated from /gnu/store/fcw6rj38k5g3cwhdqqr4yfwlhfjzr81q-examples/desktop.tmpl, which in turn comes from subdirectory gnu/system/examples/ of the local repository created in preparation for calling guix pull, using the contents of the Guix 1.5.0 tarball. The upstream Guix repository also contains this file. So this copy is fine.

However, /gnu/store/1n4lagn25hylvrn9x9v2qjf0r0dj9sby-doc, on a normal Guix installation, contains no os-config-desktop.texi. Normally, the Guix channel being pulled is a fork of Guix's upstream repository in one way or the other, and that repository has an explicit gitignore set for this file. But in our case, we initialize the channel repository with the contents of the tarball, which contains some pregenerated documentation & other files, included for user convenience. And that happens to include a copy of os-config-desktop.texi in doc, which ends up conflicting with the one generated from desktop.tmpl.

Fix, option 1: in guix-daemon-and-pull.sh, insert rm doc/os-config*; rm doc/*.??*.*; rm doc/version*.texi; rm doc/stamp*; rm doc/*.1; rm doc/*.info; rm doc/guix.info*; rm doc/images/*.eps doc/images/*.pdf doc/images/bootstrap-*.png doc/images/coreutils-bag-graph.png doc/images/coreutils-graph.png doc/images/gcc-core-mesboot0-graph.png doc/images/service-graph.png doc/images/shepherd-graph.png before git init. (Ideally, do a more thorough cleanup of pregenerated files.)

Fix, option 2: Use a clone or snapshot of the Guix Git repository, rather than a release tarball intended for human use, to prepare the local channel. (Preferably I would also switch the actual build of the Guix package to be based on a Git repository, although live-bootstrap has a preference for release tarballs.)

For now, I have locally implemented option 1, and guix pull seems to be proceeding fine.

Googulator · 2026-04-08T01:06:52Z

Successful guix pull - moving on to ISO build.

EDIT: "disable-authentication: unrecognized option" - See Googulator/guix@ca0114e for a workaround; unfortunately this causes it to rerun the entire bootstrap :(

Googulator · 2026-04-08T01:34:08Z

Before the ISO build, one also needs to cp /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/manifest /usr/manifest - otherwise it won't be able to find the local channel.

vxtls · 2026-04-08T02:11:35Z

cp /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/manifest /usr/manifest

just to make sure, what I need to do is add this before iso build in guix-build-iso.sh? copy it to the live-bootstrap's /usr dir?

Googulator · 2026-04-08T08:20:04Z

Yes, exactly.

One more thing: "--disable-authentication" on "guix system image" is invalid, and will error out unless removed.

Googulator · 2026-04-08T17:52:54Z

During the ISO build, I got an error complaining about a missing aux-files/logo.txt file. It's in gnu/installer in the tarball & channel repo, so before building the ISO, one needs to test -d /usr/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/installer/aux-files || cp -r /var/lib/guix/local-channels/guix/gnu/installer/aux-files /usr/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/installer/

Googulator · 2026-04-08T18:51:20Z

In the "build-native-utils-earlier" patch, the procedure mesboot0-package needs to read ˙(supported-systems '("i686-linux" "x86_64-linux")) instead of just (supported-systems '("i686-linux")), otherwise ISO generation will fail, thinking that there is no way to build 64-bit packages on the bootstrapped system.

It might also be necessary to change the target in the guix pull script to x86_64-linux, to avoid running the Guix bootstrap twice.

EDIT: Oops...

Googulator · 2026-04-08T20:20:36Z

And... bitrot strikes.

Guix tries to download 0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch from boost.org, and then check it against a specific hash. But Boost decided to "clean up" their copy of this patch, removing trailing whitespace - breaking the hash.

The original one with the right hash can still be found @ https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@openziti/ziti-sdk-nodejs@0.14.2/vcpkg/ports/boost-unordered/0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch - manually copying it to /gnu/store/chzch29xi2gzdxbzk77sb432klkddra1-boost-0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch seems to work (EDIT: it doesn't).

vxtls · 2026-04-08T20:32:11Z

The original one with the right hash can still be found @ https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@openziti/ziti-sdk-nodejs@0.14.2/vcpkg/ports/boost-unordered/0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch - manually copying it to /gnu/store/chzch29xi2gzdxbzk77sb432klkddra1-boost-0001-unordered-fix-copy-assign.patch seems to work.

Should we patch Guix to fix this problem? Just like the bootstrap binary, use a local web server to serve this file

Googulator · 2026-04-08T20:32:59Z

A local web server is probably a good idea, yes.

vxtls · 2026-04-08T20:42:47Z

Wait a minute, what do you mean by "it doesn't", you mean, the file didn't match or we can't copy it to /gnu/store?

Googulator · 2026-04-09T01:17:43Z

Copying to the store directly didn't work. Modifying the package definition to use the alternative URL did.

But now, I'm facing a new problem, where one of the "module-import-compiled" packages fails to build, apparently because contents of the host Guile (3.0.11) leak into the Guix environment, where the local Guile (3.0.9) can't execute them. I'm still working on solving this.

vxtls · 2026-04-09T23:49:22Z

But now, I'm facing a new problem, where one of the "module-import-compiled" packages fails to build, apparently because contents of the host Guile (3.0.11) leak into the Guix environment, where the local Guile (3.0.9) can't execute them. I'm still working on solving this.

What's the status of this issue? One thing that puzzles me is, aren't all Guix builds supposed to run in a chroot or namespace environment?
EDIT: can i have the log?

vxtls added 30 commits February 21, 2026 14:56

fix(argp-standalone): install argp artifacts manually into /kernel-to…

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…olchain instead of relying on make install

feat(musl-fts): add steps-guix musl-fts-1.2.7 build step and wire it …

92afa6f

…into manifest

musl-fts-1.2.7: update checksum

afd79c2

feat(elfutils): add steps-guix elfutils-0.194 pass1 with autotools re…

9515d30

…generation and fts/argp env wiring

fix(elfutils): switch to native compiler for pass1 while keeping fts/…

cb1a8a6

…argp env wiring

fix(elfutils): avoid configure runtime probe failure by dropping glob…

bcd3be0

…al LIBS and setting host/build + kernel-toolchain env

feat(musl-obstack): add steps-guix musl-obstack-1.2.3 step with verif…

51d4773

…ied sha256 and wire it before elfutils

fix(elfutils): build static-only to avoid libelf.so TEXTREL failures …

fee7d7d

…with static zlib

fix(elfutils): enforce static linking via LDFLAGS env in configure an…

280eaba

…d build stages

fix(elfutils): drop static LDFLAGS, keep configure-time toolchain pat…

d0f7f6f

…hs, and disable unused-but-set-variable as error

fix(elfutils): add --disable-textrelcheck

0066bbd

fix(elfutils): add FNM_EXTMATCH compatibility patch across strip, elf…

8f29302

…compress, and debuginfod client

fix(elfutils): resolve libdw transitive fts/obstack linkage in src_co…

8703b08

…mpile via rpath-link and explicit LIBS

feat(steps-guix): build linux64 kernel and switch via jump with backup

6b10401

fix(linux-6.12.74): keep host tools on /usr/bin and avoid cross ld co…

e821a06

…ntamination

fix(steps-guix): remove forced ext3 rootfstype in linux64 handover

156cd66

refactor(steps-guix): use improve-based linux64 handover to keep /ini…

55be03a

…t untouched

feat(steps-guix): add default libgpg-error-1.59 build script

6c2fd50

feat(steps-guix): add libgcrypt-1.12.1 default build with gcc-detected host and pkg-config path feat(steps-guix): add guile-gcrypt-0.5.0 with dynamic libgcrypt prefix and ld library path

refactor(steps-guix): align linux64 handover with upstream jump flow …

0b53827

…and end with shared after

fix(steps-guix): bring network up after linux64 jump before fetching…

faeff8a

… new sources

fix(steps-guix): bootstrap guile-gcrypt configure with autoreconf and…

e931553

… out-of-tree build

fix(steps-guix): make guile-gcrypt use statically derived PREFIX/LIBD…

636edeb

…IR for libgcrypt lookup

fix(steps-guix): resolve guile-gcrypt libgcrypt lookup via configured…

642ef88

… LIBDIR

fix(steps-guix): run final after stage to prevent pid1 exit panic

ae840fa

fix(steps-guix): ensure /etc/mtab exists before delegating to global …

ffce902

…after script

fix(steps-guix): run finalize_fhs after linux64 jump and drop ad-hoc …

685f8ae

…mtab hack

fix(steps-guix): initialize /proc and mtab before delegating finalize…

3bea5b5

…_fhs

fix(steps-guix): source finalize_fhs instead of exec to keep init con…

7ed755a

…trol flow

fix(steps-guix/git): add static-libcurl build path with configure che…

ddbe55b

…ck patch

vxtls added 4 commits April 6, 2026 15:40

fix(guix-local-channel): apply all guix patches before renaming sourc…

9ea6cbb

…e dir

fix(guix-improve): pass JOBS to guix pull and system image

ff99ac9

fix(guix-local-channel): preserve channel repo semantics during patch…

ab64a31

…ing, readablity improvements(src_dir -> channel_repo)

fix(guix-daemon): default to no substitutes

1e5c17b

fix(steps-guix): enable CONFIG_USER_NS in kernel config

e44c6db

fix(guix-pull): remove pregenerated docs before local channel snapshot

c1b1eb7

fix(guix): disable channel authentication in source patch

260fa2a

fix(guix-iso): copy manifest directly before image build

23f7368

vxtls added 2 commits April 8, 2026 07:28

fix(guix-iso): remove invalid option

2214fce

fix: remove iso_store_path usage, just for test

163bfbe

vxtls added 2 commits April 8, 2026 16:43

fix(guix-iso): align local channel assets and x86_64 bootstrap

a8749e8

fix(guix): mirror boost unordered patch through local distfiles

a98f0d1

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