From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: Serial line lock directory Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:58:53 -0700 Message-ID: <87a85kuvv6.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20170606205429.4266cc4d@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIUvm-0006bV-Mm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:59:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIUvl-00035L-TJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:59:02 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::233]:35239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIUvl-00034I-NP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:59:01 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-x233.google.com with SMTP id k71so2208386pgd.2 for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:59:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170606205429.4266cc4d@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:54:29 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Danny Milosavljevic writes: > I'm trying to package minicom and there I get an error message=20 > > checking for com line lock directory... configure: error: No suitable l= ock directory > > ... which was checking for a (common) directory to put a file in (as a ma= rker) when a serial device is in use (and removing the file to free the ser= ial device). This is supposed to prevent multiple different programs accid= entally using the same serial line. > > Where and how should this be done in Guix? That sounds like a directory which should exist in the localstatedir (info '(standards) Directory Variables'). I haven't looked closely at the package, but your package definition makes it look like it's using a GNU build system, so hopefully it provides a way to configure the value used for the localstatedir. =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlk3pC0ACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp1z5A//Q9HNdKrA4UQiRU2GM9pRRElvWzS68voxJBexQSZPgS08oxh0eE5uNWsn Ab3zpP07VjvqNdMxwXpkwQfgc87W/XPXXcofYSKBxCxf6joqQGUB6JS+tDkoRpfS 23hA0FnVb+1tdnFQvS3N3UKI1UH4bOMaXzme3IxIHZ8uLhvSzfSYvLMeD8UcnAwx B96mU6BqpbqPWlqHwEeCagp2h/b3B7Y++w6uozIfKpge4t/0+4ZlgN6ubNuoMwUa ChPiF/4VUu4SQEXFZX8S2YhNUi68xtlQWdKGPtNTJMDzezEJ4DEDwco25vzGLNQz QZhUtLpa/aVFHFOjviiWTvozhQIza0koFTB0Z9KdMwy47t7SyHRRvtKLomDKeTt7 C8R+5ymhcvpkano7HNj75b0M8lMDSyst7LnRXnlUNuDmPs8HMOkfWSCU5acr7DIn FxgPuhY0W4WRYEfmN24r3UKflTF+KMQsyORaxWDrBNTxHHERwdSDRPYHA3e35gX5 h4mzBYPYkKkDOt6ltzXfSs18UeSqT4u/MYQgzhzEx9+/Q70gTQLHKLW5T7+03vfz WLHYbin4c/9LOWSkoLZLI8AgUS/XXYkBm1iUa8zVNqd2GufHwoUiPeA88ZNgmJeZ KbMNIbfLbIxdMF7AbW2OOETqi4gGxLsp2MX1WidayTz1WVTDAQ0= =Tw8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--