From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Paul Garlick <pgarlick@tourbillion-technology.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:58:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftynu0eu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536146344.3092.20.camel@tourbillion-technology.com> (Paul Garlick's message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:19:04 +0100")
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Hi Paul,
Paul Garlick <pgarlick@tourbillion-technology.com> skribis:
>> ‘guix pull’ will happily perform the transition.
>
> For me, I have an older Guix (16th May) that fails to install guile-
> gcrypt. As root:
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 6f84dc4314cd84550d9fc7e7afa11c495edc45a5
>
> When I try 'guix pull' there is an attempt to build guile-gcrypt
> locally that fails with the message './configure: No such file or
> directory'. I can see that the build procedure moves from the 'unpack'
> phase straight to the 'patch-usr-bin-file' phase with no 'bootstrap'
> phase in between.
Hmm…
> Aha, another chicken-and-egg, I thought; my older Guix does not have a
> 'bootstrap' phase. However, I can see that the commit for adding the
> new phase was made on 11th March, so perhaps 'guix pull' is failing for
> a different reason.
Indeed, that may well be the reason. Can you try to apply the patch
below in a local branch, and then run “make as-derivation”?
TIA, and apologies for the breakage!
Ludo’.
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diff --git a/build-aux/build-self.scm b/build-aux/build-self.scm
index f472724f1..f91b43987 100644
--- a/build-aux/build-self.scm
+++ b/build-aux/build-self.scm
@@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ person's version identifier."
"1gir7ifknbmbvjlql5j6wzk7bkb5lnmq80q59ngz43hhpclrk5k3"))
(file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ ;; The 'bootstrap' phase appeared in 'core-updates', which was merged
+ ;; into 'master' ca. June 2018.
+ '(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (delete 'bootstrap)
+ (add-before 'configure 'bootstrap
+ (lambda _
+ (unless (zero? (system* "autoreconf" "-vfi"))
+ (error "autoreconf failed"))
+ #t)))))
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,(specification->package "pkg-config"))
("autoconf" ,(specification->package "autoconf"))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 11:19 Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt Paul Garlick
2018-09-05 20:58 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-09-06 9:24 ` Paul Garlick
2018-09-06 10:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-06 11:58 ` Paul Garlick
2018-09-06 21:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-10 9:34 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-10 11:15 ` Paul Garlick
2018-09-10 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-11 9:54 ` Paul Garlick
2018-09-12 17:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-14 19:17 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-09-27 7:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-27 11:36 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-09-06 21:14 ` Paul Garlick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-02 16:35 Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-03 10:36 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-09-04 20:07 ` Alex Vong
2018-09-04 20:14 ` Leo Famulari
2018-09-04 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-05 23:24 ` Alex Vong
2018-09-06 9:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
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