From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 14:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7sohr7t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muwou73z.fsf@gnu.org>
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Cumbersome indeed. I also thought of installing to a local "output"
folder and using this as source. The issue is that the prefix (as in
"./configure --prefix=") must be set to the store output of emacs-dev.
Otherwise Emacs won't find its Lisp folders.
I can't think of a clean way to do it.
Let's go back to my original intention: I want to do is a clean way to
install work-in-progress projects. On traditional Unices, this can be
done by calling `make install` to /usr/local (possibly with the help of
`stow`).
On Guix, installing to /usr/local won't help: in all cases we've got to
set all the *PATH variables to folders of the locally compiled project.
I initially thought that the Guix package manager could help but it
seems that I was wrong: Guix is made to _build_ packages reproducibly,
not to install some random files.
Now I'm thinking that a better approach to this issue is to install,
say, in ~/.local and to set all PATH variables appropriately, e.g.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
export C_INCLUDE_PATH="$HOME/.local/include":$C_INCLUDE_PATH
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="$HOME/.local/include":$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/.local/lib":$LIBRARY_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/.local/lib/pkgconfig":$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.local/share/info":$INFOPATH
export MANPATH="$HOME/.local/share/man":$MANPATH
# ...
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Lots of work ahead! :p
For emacs, maybe a better way is to simply add
~/projects/emacs/src/emacs to the PATH.
Does anyone know of a better approach?
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Pierre Neidhardt
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 15:14 emacs-dev: 'unpack' phase does not seem to preserve timestamps Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-23 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-23 20:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 12:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-24 12:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-25 12:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
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