Re: Problem with `direnv` package definition

[Tanguy Le Carrour]

Le 04/20, Christopher Baines a écrit :
> Tanguy Le Carrour <address@hidden> writes:
> > However, in the package definition [2], 3 Go packages are listed as
> > "inputs" whereas they should be listed as "native-inputs". Is this
> > correct?
> That sounds right to me, although there have been issues with binaries
> generated with Go […]
> There's also an important aspect of cross-compilation to these fields,
> which you can read about here:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/package-Reference.html

Thanks for the link.

I do realize that, so close to the release of Guix System 1.0,
this can sound trivial, but I find it a little annoying to have
`guix size direnv` reporting 594 MiB when the actual binary size is
2.9M. :-(


> > As I said, I'm still learning. But I've tried, and here is what I've
> > done so far […]
> 
> I tried changing the inputs to native-inputs, and the package built for
> me. Could you share the exact changes you made?

I haven't done much:

--- a/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/shellutils.scm
@@ -129,12 +129,11 @@ are already there.")
          ;; Help the build scripts find the Go language dependencies.
          (add-before 'unpack 'setup-go-environment
            (assoc-ref go:%standard-phases 'setup-go-environment)))))
-    (inputs
-     `(("go" ,go)
-       ("go-github-com-burntsushi-toml" ,go-github-com-burntsushi-toml)
-       ("go-github-com-direnv-go-dotenv" ,go-github-com-direnv-go-dotenv)))
     (native-inputs
-      `(("which" ,which)))
+      `(("go" ,go)
+        ("go-github-com-burntsushi-toml" ,go-github-com-burntsushi-toml)
+        ("go-github-com-direnv-go-dotenv" ,go-github-com-direnv-go-dotenv)
+        ("which" ,which)))
     (home-page "https://direnv.net/";)
     (synopsis "Environment switcher for the shell")
     (description


Thanks again for your time!


-- 
Tanguy