Re: Help me create a janet-build-system

[Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>]

Am Samstag, den 15.05.2021, 15:25 -0400 schrieb Jack Hill:
> Leo,
> 
> Thanks for your reply
> 
> On Sat, 15 May 2021, Leo Prikler wrote:
> 
> > Your code imports (guix utils), but (guix utils) is not present
> > within
> > the module closure present at build time.
> > Did you mean (guix build utils)?
> 
> I used cc-for-target and cxx-for-target from (guix utils). Where
> would I add (guix utils) so it is included on the build side?
In my opinion, these flags ought to be added on the build-system side
of things, not on the build side.  There you can just add those two
flags to the ones already provided by the package.

> > > More generally, I expect there are many ways I could improve the
> > > build system. What are they?
> > I know little about jpm, but in my opinion you ought to let the
> > user
> > customize the flags passed on to jpm at least in the build target
> > --
> > not so sure about check and install.  If janet-build-system allows
> > some
> > degree of customization, consider also letting the user override
> > the
> > test-target.
> 
> I think I should at least try to make the with-toolchain package 
> transformation option work. Beyond that, I'm not sure how much 
> customization jpm offers without editing project.janet. [...]
If certain guixy things would require you to edit/create that file, you
should do that.  I think ant-build-system does something similar.

Regards,
Leo