1. emacs can't build emacs.git's snapshot for some reason
2. I think let guile-emacs inherit emacs-snapshot or emacs-next is more reasonable, for guile-emacs is a kind of emacs-next.

By the way, when I use the below command:

guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=./emacs-snapshot-20151111.tar.gz

to build a new emacs-snapshot, How can i install it? I can't find any help on manual....

At the momenti, i only use guix as a tool to build emacs-snapshot. but I find it is not easy use as evm, i have to switch back evm.


At 2015-11-12 20:52:47, "ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic" <=?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)> wrote:
>tumashu <tumashu@163.com> skribis:
>
>> Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot and let guile-emacs inherit it, The reason is that
>> user can use it build emacs from emacs.git conveniently， for example:
>>
>>     guix build emacs-snapshot --with-source=./emacs-snapshot-20151111.tar.gz
>
>To use --with-source, all you need to do is to rename the tarball to
>‘emacs-20151111.tar.gz’; after that, you can run:
>
>  guix build emacs --with-source=emacs-20151111.tar.gz
>
>That’s because --with-source expects the tarball name to match the
>package name (info "(guix) Invoking guix build").
>
>Now, it might make sense to also provide an ‘emacs-snapshot’ package,
>built from a Git checkout and regularly updated.  Would you like to try
>that?
>
>I think the package would simply inherit from ‘guile-emacs’ and provide
>a different ‘name’, ‘version’, and ‘source’.
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.