From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: tree doesn't get called Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 17:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20170505172459.158487fc@openmailbox.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6lex-0003ME-67 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 18:25:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6leu-00030v-2C for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 18:25:11 -0400 Received: from lb1.openmailbox.org ([5.79.108.160]:60929 helo=mail.openmailbox.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6let-0002tf-QV for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2017 18:25:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Catonano Cc: help-guix On Fri, 5 May 2017 17:50:53 +0200 Catonano wrote: > stranded as usual. > > So here's the package > http://paste.lisp.org/display/345871 > > What is wrong with it ? > > The build fails, the build folder (kept in /tmp) is empty > > Further, when I attempt to call tree, tree doesn't get called trivial-build-system requires you to do a lot manually. In this case '(zero? (system* "tree"))' fails because it's not found in $PATH. And the build folder is empty because the builder doesn't put anything there! :) Since you're working from a git checkout here, you could probably copy/compile things directly from the source checkout to 'out'. Hope that helps, `~Eric