Re: Right way: define, build and install

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 2018-05-02 19:34, Jone a écrit :
> On Gentoo I actively used github: download, then local build and 
> install
> in ~/{bin,tools}. It was easy! I didn't even need ebuilds and did not
> think as this works :-)
> 
> Now I need several applications which are absent and will not be in
> official repositories of a distribution. For an example:
> 1. https://github.com/x2b/usbeject
> 2. xfce4-cpugraph-plugin
> 
> I tried to define this as "some-package.scm" and build, but the first
> requires some magic with gexp, and for the second - it is unknown what
> for "use-modules". Finally, in the manual is just one stupid example
> "hello"!
> 
> Help!!


Hi Jone and welcome!

if you could share your attempts, it would help us understand what's
going on better. Then we can actually help you ;)

Julien