Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

Wow, Björn, you were so fast again :)

I just got around this right now.

Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> ezt írta (időpont:
2018. okt. 18., Cs, 8:54):
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:36:02 -0300
> Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html#Contributing
> > I have already read this chapter, but I am messed up. I have already
> > cloned from git, but I have some questions:
> > 1) Do I need to install everything from the git repo in my distro?
>
> I'm not sure if I understand you right. You ask if you "need to install
> everything from the git in my distro?". I don't get that. Let me tell
> what I mean:
>
> You cloned that one, right?
>
> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>
> That is the source code of Guix. I.e. when you do a
>
> guix package -i hello
>
> then you use the binary "guix" command that you installed in the
> beginning. And the repository you cloned is just the source code, there
> is nothing in there that you need to install.
>
>
> Maybe you ment the list of software that is written here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git
>
> When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required in addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions (see Requirements).
>
>     GNU Autoconf;
>     GNU Automake;
>     GNU Gettext;
>     GNU Texinfo;
>     Graphviz;
>     GNU Help2man (optional).
>
> So, yeah. In order to compile Guix from source, you need all these.
>
> But wait, read the next sentence. You have guix already installed. Guix
> provides a VERY nice command, `guix envirionment <PACKAGE>`. With that,
> Guix prepares an "environment" that can be directly used to build
> <PACKAGE>.
>
> So, if you enter:
>
> guix environment guix
>
> then Guix will know best what software in which version it needs in
> order to build guix (in this case, itself, don't get trapped by that
> self-circularity :-))
>
> When you are in, you can just follow the next steps described:
>
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> make
>
> When that went all through well, you can install the "hello"
> application:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello
>
> The "./pre-inst-env" tells that you want to use the guix command that
> you just built, not the one that is somewhere else on your path.
>
> Now you just go on:
>
> > 2) How do I convert my template into a package? I can't figure out
> > that part.
>
> You don't have to CONVERT. That template IS a package:
>
> > > (define-public r-aspi
> > > (package
> > >   (name "r-aspi")
>
> What you do is you just open the file gnu/packages/r.scm and add your
> "(define... " at the end.
>
> Ehh, wait, there is no file r.scm. It is either cran.scm or
> bioinformatics.scm.
>
> Then you are done. Try to build it:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi
>
> Björn
>
>
>

Thank you!
g_bor