From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:06:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1jloam0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZcNrOSLh-3+JKkumknJeP4s-es7Z3t52gPPz+-uO9r=w@mail.gmail.com> (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:46:53 -0400")
"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> I don't think so. Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal process for *building*
>>>> guix - only for bootstrapping. But you are right - it is common to want to do that.
>>>> For this reason I often run:
>>>>
>>>> guix environment guix --ad-hoc automake autoconf texinfo help2man
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But perhaps you are right - the manual might want to mention this.
>>>>
>>>> J'
>>>
>>> That makes sense. I feel like it used to provide all the dependencies,
>>> including autoconf etc., but that was months ago, and I might be
>>> mis-remembering. It works fine when I add the needed bootstrap
>>> dependencies with --ad-hoc.
>>
>> In fact there’s a small time window during which “guix environment guix”
>> doesn’t provide autoconf et al.: it’s when the ‘guix’ variable in (gnu
>> packages package-management) refers to a released tarball instead of a
>> Git checkout, since a build from tarball doesn’t depend on autoconf et
>> al.
>>
>> So if you run “guix environment guix” on a commit different from
>> v0.11.0 + 1, you effectively get all the dependencies.
>>
>> I admit this is a bit confusing. Not sure how to document/improve that.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> How about a public guix-devel package that always builds from the Git repo?
Good idea. I guess it could essentially be an alias for the current
‘guix-devel’. Could you look into it and update the docs accordingly?
Thanks! :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 4:18 guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies? Chris Marusich
2016-09-28 4:54 ` John Darrington
2016-09-28 5:10 ` Chris Marusich
2016-09-28 12:46 ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-28 19:06 ` myglc2
2016-09-30 6:52 ` Chris Marusich
2016-09-28 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-30 0:46 ` Thompson, David
2016-09-30 6:40 ` Chris Marusich
2016-09-30 12:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-09-30 15:22 ` Chris Marusich
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