Hi, currently for updating package definitions in guix.git, these are
the steps I am following:
(from https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#building-gnu-guix-from-source-using-guix---the-bullet-proof-way)
in guix.git
guix pull
guix environment -C guix --ad-hoc bash vim guile-json
(in the new environment)
gcc --version
guile --version
rm -rf autom4te.cache/ # to be sure
make clean
./bootstrap
./configure --localstatedir=/var
make clean # to be really sure
make clean-go # to be even surer
time make -j 4
(then getting out of the special environment)
updating the relevant .scm files, testing build with
./pre-inst-env guix build -k -K <target>
etc.)
However, now every time after I do git pull in guix.git, I need to
repeat the steps above from
guix environment -C guix --ad-hoc bash vim guile-json
and make clean, re-configure, etc.. I find that just redoing make (in
the special guix environment) will not work.
Is there a way to avoid make clean and rebuilding the whole tree? I
wonder if I was missing something. Rebuilding every time is just time
consuming. Thanks for info on this