Hi Julien, Thomas, Ludovic and Chris,

Thanks very much for your tips on my Jitsi building adventures from a
few weeks back! I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

Regards,
Ben

On Wed, 08 Nov 2017, julien lepiller wrote:

> Le 2017-11-08 05:01, Ben Sturmfels a écrit:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> I'm having some trouble packaging Jitsi (a VoIP client written in 
>> Java).
>> The attached patch adds the package "jitsi", which completes the 
>> "build"
>> phase, but fails as below. Ignoring for now that Jitsi is bundling a 
>> whole lot
>> of dependencies, can someone help me understand what’s going on:
>> 
>> phase `build' succeeded after 45.3 seconds
>> starting phase `check'
>> test suite not run
>> phase `check' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `strip-jar-timestamps'
>> find-files: /gnu/store/kz7kwgm25xk83fc69immm80dazv9gb6x-jitsi-2.10: No
>> such file or directory
>> phase `strip-jar-timestamps' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `patch-shebangs'
>> phase `patch-shebangs' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `strip'
>> phase `strip' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `validate-runpath'
>> phase `validate-runpath' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `validate-documentation-location'
>> phase `validate-documentation-location' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `delete-info-dir-file'
>> phase `delete-info-dir-file' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `patch-dot-desktop-files'
>> phase `patch-dot-desktop-files' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `reset-gzip-timestamps'
>> find-files: /gnu/store/kz7kwgm25xk83fc69immm80dazv9gb6x-jitsi-2.10: No
>> such file or directory
>> phase `reset-gzip-timestamps' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> starting phase `compress-documentation'
>> phase `compress-documentation' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>> builder for
>> `/gnu/store/hxpb6xvx324d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv' failed to
>> produce output path
>> `/gnu/store/kz7kwgm25xk83fc69immm80dazv9gb6x-jitsi-2.10'
>> @ build-failed
>> /gnu/store/hxpb6xvx324d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv - 1 builder
>> for `/gnu/store/hxpb6xvx324d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv'
>> failed to produce output path
>> `/gnu/store/kz7kwgm25xk83fc69immm80dazv9gb6x-jitsi-2.10'
>> note: keeping build directory `/tmp/guix-build-jitsi-2.10.drv-0'
>> guix build: error: build failed: build of
>> `/gnu/store/hxpb6xvx324d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv' failed
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>
> Well of course if you "(delete 'install)", you won't install anything :p
>
> You should rather modify that phase to install manually (using 
> install-file)
> the compiled jar, or find the correct target in build.xml.
>
> Also, this package bundles a lot of pre-compiled jars. You should remove
> them (for-each delete-files (find-files "." ".*.jar")) and add them as
> inputs (we already have all of them, except felix.jar, but I think I
> have a package for that: I will send it this evening).
>
> Then you will be able to make a wrapper script. You can get inspiration
> from the java-antlr packages.
>
> Finally, there is probably an issue with your #:main-class: a class
> usually starts with an upper-case letter. According to your comment,
> it should be net.java.sip.communicator.launcher.SIPCommunicator.
>
>> 
>> --
>> Ben Sturmfels
>> 
>> Sturm - Software Engineering
>> www.sturm.com.au
>> (03) 9024 2467