Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package

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

Hello Laura,

Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018.
okt. 19., P, 20:37):
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 4:29 AM Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Ricardo,
> >
> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 19., P 9:10):
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Laura,
> >>
> >> > with guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc coreutils findutils which (or -C)
> >> > I get, the output:
> >> > Command 'lesspipe' is available in the following places
> >> >  * /bin/lesspipe
> >> >  * /usr/bin/lesspipe
> >> > The command could not be located because '/bin:/usr/bin' is not
> >> > included in the PATH environment variable.
> >> > lesspipe: command not found
> >>
> >> This is because your shell initialization code (e.g. to set up the
> >> prompt) refers to lesspipe.  You can ignore this or remove the fancy
> >> initialization.
> >>
> >> > There, I run which guix and get:
> >> > which: no guix in
> >> > (/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/bin:/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/sbin)
> >>
> >> That’s because “--pure” resets the PATH; that’s by design.  The only
> >> problem you have is that your Guix is located elsewhere.  But why do you
> >> need Guix itself inside of an environment to build Guix?
> >>
> >> The point of using “guix environment --pure guix” is only to enter a
> >> clean environment containing everything you need to build Guix from
> >> source.  So once you’re inside of this environment you can run the
> >> bootstrap and configure scripts, and run make to compile the sources.
> >>
> >> To *use* that Guix you just built you need to use “./pre-inst-env guix”
> >> from the source directory.
> >>
> >> > The closest I got was by setting:
> >> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/:/bin
> >> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
> >>
> >> This defeats the purpose of using “--pure” as these directories contain
> >> all sorts of things on a foreign distro, so you lose control over the
> >> environment.
>
> I am glad to tell you that I have followed all the commands, I will
> copy some of them here just in case, and saved the output in my daily
> journal of everything :)
>
> guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc coreutils findutils which
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> make
> echo $? ->got 0
> which guix -> got
> no guix in (/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/bin:/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/sbin)
> ./pre-inst-env guix package --help -> worked fine!
> ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello -> the same
> ./pre-inst-env guix package -i emacs
> export PATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
> export INFOPATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
> (with this two exports, I could run hello and emacs without problems)
> ./pre-inst-env guix package -i nss-certs
> Played a lot with
> ./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi
> and
> emacs gnu/packages/cran.scm
> until I found out that there were syntax errors, mismatches in
> parenthesis and so on, and in the last
> ./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi got:
> ;;; note: source file /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.go
> (still that) but:

This is not a problem, it just indicates that you modified cran.scm, and it will
use the .scm file instead, as the .go file was compiled from an older source.

> successfully built /gnu/store/bmapswnk9li1nscfpirgzsy3npw9hyql-r-aspi-0.2.0.drv
> /gnu/store/a3apqwf4hy67ms462hn802gk89x99mzh-r-aspi-0.2.0
>

That's great!

> I am following the contribution guide now, to send the patch, I ran
> ./pre-inst-env guix lint r-aspi
> ;;; note: source file /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.go
> fetching CVE database for 2018...
> fetching CVE database for 2017...
> fetching CVE database for 2016...
> fetching CVE database for 2015...
>
> Is this output OK?
>

Yes, this output is just fine.

> >
> >
> > Sorry, my bad, I missed that.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ricardo
> >
> > g_bor
>
> Regards!
> Laura
Best regards,
g_bor