Hi Arnaud.

Had a look at your package, it does not have the configure script where
build-system gnu is expecting. I couldn't see it anywhere else either.

I've made a few changes that I attached. With this you can put the file in a
directory that you append to your $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH and then just run 'guix
build freefilesync'.

I see the License file has three other licenses in addition to GPL3. But the
names look like free software too (though I'm not a lawyer). No idea how we
handle cases like that.

Also, the rest of the code tree looks very non-standard as far as the tools
I'm used go... Which is probably why you are having trouble building it.

Hope that helps a little.

Thomas

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:14:34 +0200
Arnaud B <arnaud.beaudhuin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Well I'm happy to report that thanks to your advice I made some progress.
> Using the scm file attached and the command :
> *guix build -L /home/arnaud/guix_packages/gnu/packages/ -K -f
> freefilesync.scm*
> the build process starts as it should, the zip file is downloaded, checked
> and unziped as needed, and the cpp files compile normally.
> It stops at the configure script stage, apparently not finding the
> configure command.
> H
> ​ere is the relevant part :
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> *phase `unpack' succeeded after 0.3 secondsstarting phase
> `patch-usr-bin-file'phase `patch-usr-bin-file' succeeded after 0.0
> secondsstarting phase `patch-source-shebangs'phase `patch-source-shebangs'
> succeeded after 0.2 secondsstarting phase `configure'source directory:
> "/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-0/source" (relative from build:
> ".")build directory:
> "/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-0/source"configure flags:
> ("CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash"
> "SHELL=/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash"
> "--prefix=/gnu/store/v07x6jfph9yy7bf54ibdb9z08snjn6lh-freefilesync-9.9"
> "--enable-fast-install"
> "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
> /gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash:
> ./configure: No such file or
> directory                                              phase `configure'
> failed after 0.0 secondsnote: keeping build directory
> `/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-1'builder for
> `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv' failed
> with exit code 1@ build-failed
> /gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv - 1
> builder for
> `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv' failed
> with exit code 1                     guix build: error: build failed: build
> of `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv'
> failed*
> This is surprising to me as, according to the manual
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Packages.html>,
> configure is part of the usual set of tools found in the gnu build system.
> Let met quote :
> *"The (...) gnu-build-system represents the familiar GNU Build System,
> where packages may be configured, built, and installed with the usual
> ./configure && make && make check && make install command sequence."*
> I checked that bash, bash-minimal, bash-completion are all found in the
> store (actually in 3 differents versions after guix puil I guess).
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> So again I rely on your knowledge, hoping to get through eventually.
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> PS : I reworded the package name and description as per the guidelines.
> 
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> 2018-04-02 21:53 GMT+02:00 Arnaud B <arnaud.beaudhuin@gmail.com>:
> 
> > ​Hello Pierre and Oleg
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the detailed and helpful answers, I will do accordingly
> > tomorrow night after work and report.
> > Cheers
> >
> >