From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Lazzati Subject: Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:49:10 -0300 Message-ID: References: <20181016074412.54757b18@alma-ubu> <20181016082350.75757e6b@alma-ubu> <20181017001851.71543cc9@alma-ubu> <20181017091750.1c408b8d@alma-ubu> <20181018085424.541e9287@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD9cU-0004Pv-DH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:49:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD9cT-0003lz-2G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:49:50 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x529.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::529]:36055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD9cS-0003jO-Kh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:49:48 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-x529.google.com with SMTP id f18-v6so14317313pgv.3 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:49:48 -0700 (PDT) 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" To: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:50 AM G=C3=A1bor Boskovits = wrote: > > Wow, Bj=C3=B6rn, you were so fast again :) > > I just got around this right now. Again, thank both for being so kind :) > > Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling ezt =C3=ADrta= (id=C5=91pont: > 2018. okt. 18., Cs, 8:54): > > > > Hi Laura, > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:36:02 -0300 > > Laura Lazzati 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 Requi= rements). > > > > 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. I was indeed trying to do this. > > > > But wait, read the next sentence. You have guix already installed. Guix > > provides a VERY nice command, `guix envirionment `. With that, > > Guix prepares an "environment" that can be directly used to build > > . > > > > So, if you enter: > > > > guix environment guix I have just did this :) > > > > 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 This worked fine. > > ./configure --localstatedir=3D/var This did not, I am getting this error: configure: checking for guile 2.2 configure: found guile 2.2 checking for guile-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-2.2 checking for Guile version >=3D 2.2... 2.2.3 checking for guild-2.2... no checking for guile-config-2.2... no checking for guile-tools-2.2... no configure: error: 'guild' binary not found; please check your guile-2.x installation. Then ran $guix package -i guile Same error running configure. $guix package -s guild $guix package -i guildhall And my output of guix -I, however, is: hello 2.10 out /gnu/store/bihfrh609gkxb9dp7n96wlpigiv3krfy-hello-2= .10 recutils 1.7 out /gnu/store/6h02na6yz9smc7c7g62ss03kp4yhqpc1-recutils-1.7 glibc-locales 2.27 out /gnu/store/s28fmfrq8r0c688x59cj0fcyh2pv87nj-glibc-locales-2.27 glibc-utf8-locales 2.27 out /gnu/store/mbns811n696fl7g060cx6jqjh75mlj8i-glibc-utf8-locales-2.27 nss-certs 3.36.1 out /gnu/store/h8qlwgwhg6jr0kp5ihy90cgb6h0q1fj9-nss-certs-3.36.1 r-ade4 1.7-11 out /gnu/store/980xl9a58nd6f22wzwsmv9mkhv7pq3hh-r-ade4-1.7-11 guile 2.2.4 out /gnu/store/p9wm67w3rfw3hlb9iljgvsfn84mz4w9d-guile-= 2.2.4 guildhall 0-1.2fe2cc539 out /gnu/store/kd2mvhr18yphrkiqgavw0w0r0n5bfchn-guildhall-0-1.2fe2cc539 Something weird is that in configure output I see there is a /usr/bin mentioned, so I went to that dir, ran $ ll | grep guile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 oct 10 22:55 guile -> /etc/alternatives/guile* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 jul 17 10:42 guile-2.2 -> ../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile-2.2/bin/guile* And can't figure out why I have that links. > > 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 > > > > Bj=C3=B6rn > > > > > > > > Thank you! > g_bor Regards :) Laura