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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: not tarred source file
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 22:57:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tzb11ll.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDzSyE-JbT481Y-J53t2EvVmYNrzpuzqqvvctR9F60=EDw@mail.gmail.com> (catonano@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 15 May 2016 22:25:12 +0200")

Hi!

Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:

> after having successfully packaged (locally) the Zenburn theme and
> Smartparens, I am preparing the package for clojure-mode
>
> But for the first time it happens that the downloaded source code is not
> tarred so tar fails and so does the unpack phase.
>
> How do I instruct the origin object not to attempt untarring my source ?

It’s OK if the ‘origin’ denotes a file that is not a tarball.

However, the build procedure will have to pay attention for that.  For
instance, the default sequence of phases of ‘gnu-build-system’ includes
an ‘unpack’ phase, which is inappropriate here:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Systems.html

There are a couple of examples, e.g., paredit in emacs.scm.  Most of
them use ‘trivial-build-system’, which requires explicitly writing the
build/install operations.

HTH!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-15 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-15 20:25 not tarred source file Catonano
2016-05-15 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-05-15 22:45   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-05-16 11:02     ` Catonano
2016-05-16 20:04   ` Alex Kost
2016-05-16 20:52     ` Ludovic Courtès

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