Re: Help me create a janet-build-system

[Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>]

Leo,

Thanks for your reply

On Sat, 15 May 2021, Leo Prikler wrote:

> Your code imports (guix utils), but (guix utils) is not present within
> the module closure present at build time.
> Did you mean (guix build utils)?

I used cc-for-target and cxx-for-target from (guix utils). Where would I 
add (guix utils) so it is included on the build side?

>> More generally, I expect there are many ways I could improve the
>> build system. What are they?
> I know little about jpm, but in my opinion you ought to let the user
> customize the flags passed on to jpm at least in the build target --
> not so sure about check and install.  If janet-build-system allows some
> degree of customization, consider also letting the user override the
> test-target.

I think I should at least try to make the with-toolchain package 
transformation option work. Beyond that, I'm not sure how much 
customization jpm offers without editing project.janet. I'll take a look 
at some of the other build systems for language-specific build tools for 
ideas (I think a lot of them have a similar, minimal feature set). I also 
hope that once I get a working build system and gain some experience using 
it to create packages, some customization opportunities will present 
themselves.

Best,
Jack