From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setting up guix source tree for testing a package
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:52:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEvigjug4FXrzEI5@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7698a9df-6fe6-9581-a513-456f8058ad3b@posteo.de>
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:31:36AM +0100, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> ~~~~
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --localstatedir=some_directory
> ~~~~
>
> But here I am facing a problem. I have no clue what to set the
> `--localstatedir=directory` to. The docs tell me it is important, but I see no
> instructions on how to choose a directory for the local state, when I have
> already a Guix installed (binary installation on foreign distro).
The manual section Building From Git says this:
"Then, run ./configure as usual. Make sure to pass
--localstatedir=directory where directory is the localstatedir value
used by your current installation (see The Store, for information about
this), usually /var."
Did you try using '/var'?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-12 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 23:31 Setting up guix source tree for testing a package Zelphir Kaltstahl
2021-03-12 1:01 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-03-17 20:46 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2021-03-18 0:22 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-03-12 19:59 ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-17 20:49 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2021-03-12 21:52 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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