Was about to attempt to package #GHDL for #Guix... spent an hour before I stumbled across the guix-electronics[1] channel!! I know there's a channel aggregator somewhere but I always forget to check it before making a package...
Funny that it isn't upstreamed yet though. GHDL seems like a package that would fit into Guix proper very well, we have a `fpga.scm` file already anyway. Perhaps its accomodating all the different compile-time variations?
@adanskana ah, I can remember when I was going to port ghdl somewhere and later decided not to, actually.
@screwtape looking at the package definition I definitely bit off a bit more than I could chew. And it looked so simple from the building guide! Just autotools and a flag for llvm.
The GCC build does look super complex though. It would be nice to have, but especially in Guix having to copy the GCC source into the same tree would be just a big pain.
@adanskana I felt really strongly against llvm at the time ;p bygone days
@screwtape hahaha, same reasons i was considering the gcc build. Woe unto Ye, fearsome MIT-y dragon!...
@adanskana @screwtape If I understood correctly, the #gcc #ghdl backend is to be obsoleted at some point, so the effort to create a #guix package is not worth it.