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From: 白い熊@相撲道 <guix-devel_gnu.org@sumou.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'core-updates': should we mention Graphviz in "Requirements"?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <819aff1d5d8f4df0661dd1ec3d57bb3a@hcoop.net> (raw)

>> 'make' fails with the following:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> dot -Tpng -Tpng -Gratio=.9 -Gnodesep=.005 -Granksep=.00005 
>> -Nfontsize=9
>> -Nheight=.1 -Nwidth=.1 < "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.dot" >
>> "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png.tmp"
>> /bin/bash: dot: command not found
>> make[2]: *** [doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png] Error 127
> 
> The idea is that the images produces by dot are part of the tarball, so
> Graphviz doesn’t need to be listed as a requirement.
> 
> That said, it would be good to mention it in the “Building from Git”
> section that you’re working on.

Ugh... This just got me.

I'm running git Guix on a GuixSD install, having aliased "guix" to the 
git version.

So in order to run make now I first have to install graphviz using the 
non-git guix, since the dot commang is not present, and only then can I 
make the git right?

Cumbersome...
-- 
白い熊@相撲道

             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27  8:28 白い熊@相撲道 [this message]
2015-08-27  9:10 ` 'core-updates': should we mention Graphviz in "Requirements"? Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 10:13   ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-08-27 11:28     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-08-27 13:47       ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-08-27 20:51         ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-09 21:37 Nikita Karetnikov
2013-07-09 21:42 ` Ludovic Courtès

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