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Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?
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Chris Marusich |
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Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies? |
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Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:22:47 -0700 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>>> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> I don't think so. Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal process
>>>>> for *building*
>>>>> guix - only for bootstrapping. But you are right - it is common to want
>>>>> to do that.
>>>>> For this reason I often run:
>>>>>
>>>>> guix environment guix --ad-hoc automake autoconf texinfo help2man
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But perhaps you are right - the manual might want to mention this.
>>>>>
>>>>> J'
>>>>
>>>> That makes sense. I feel like it used to provide all the dependencies,
>>>> including autoconf etc., but that was months ago, and I might be
>>>> mis-remembering. It works fine when I add the needed bootstrap
>>>> dependencies with --ad-hoc.
>>>
>>> In fact there’s a small time window during which “guix environment guix”
>>> doesn’t provide autoconf et al.: it’s when the ‘guix’ variable in (gnu
>>> packages package-management) refers to a released tarball instead of a
>>> Git checkout, since a build from tarball doesn’t depend on autoconf et
>>> al.
>>>
>>> So if you run “guix environment guix” on a commit different from
>>> v0.11.0 + 1, you effectively get all the dependencies.
>>>
>>> I admit this is a bit confusing. Not sure how to document/improve that.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>
>> How about a public guix-devel package that always builds from the Git repo?
>
> Good idea. I guess it could essentially be an alias for the current
> ‘guix-devel’. Could you look into it and update the docs accordingly?
>
> Thanks! :-)
I'll give this a shot. I'll send a little patch this weekend.
--
Chris
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- guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, John Darrington, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Thompson, David, 2016/09/29
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/30
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/30
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