Re: not tarred source file

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

Hi there,

On 16/05/16 06:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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.
If it is a single file then I believe it is as simple as deleting the 
unpack phase e.g. fasttree in bioinformatics.scm, I had thought it was 
still good practice not to use the trivial build system where possible 
as it omits some useful defaults.

ben