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From: Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com>
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org>
Cc: Help Guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix package -i emacs, failed
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:01:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310100102.GA26303@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaamg0u6.fsf@member.fsf.org>

Hello,

Is there way to download binary directly? 

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 05:05:05PM +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
> Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yesterday I was trying to compile emacs from guix: guix package -i
> > emacs, and it did not work, it said: gdk-pixbuf could not be done for
> > 3600 seconds, something like that.
> I think the issue is gdk-pixbuf's stress tests try to use a lot of
> memory and sometimes can run too long without any output.  There is
> an 'max-silent-time' option in guix can be used to set the 3600s limit,
> but it may be not what we need here ;-)
> >
> > However, when emacs is compiled directly, it works without problems.
> >
> > Maybe gdk-pixbuf should not be dependency for emacs. It is basic to have
> > emacs first.
> gdk-pixbuf is used by gtk+, and the default emacs is compiled with gtk+
> GUI.  There is 'emacs-no-x' with ncurses UI which don't need it.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  7:27 guix package -i emacs, failed Jean Louis
2016-03-10  9:05 ` 宋文武
2016-03-10 10:01   ` Jean Louis [this message]
2016-03-10 16:30     ` Ludovic Courtès

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