From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: How to test changes to guix locally? (Was: Re: Trying to fix an error in the pypi-importer) Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:58:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2nr95be.fsf@elephly.net> References: <568453F6.1050605@gmail.com> <2c5756c8877a36699f8dbb07731ab3c1@riseup.net> <257e9ac376ee2c97785c0e63715ed38c@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFRNx-0005g2-S9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:58:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFRNx-0007wb-27 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:58:41 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: swedebugia@riseup.net Cc: guix-devel , guix-devel-bounces+swedebugia=riseup.net@gnu.org swedebugia@riseup.net writes: > How do I best go about testing my changes to the build-system? make & > ./pre-inst-env guix ...? Somebody mentioned input but I did not > understand that. Yes, “./pre-inst-env” allows you to use the guix library in the current directory. Note that when you change a build system all packages that use this build system would be rebuilt. Changing the importer has no such effect. ~~ Ricardo