Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Christopher,
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> I'm trying to reduce the number of patches I have sitting around in git
>> branches, so here is a bug about Elasticsearch.
>
> Cool, thanks for sharing!
>
>> I've had a really awful package definition for this for a while, which
>> just makes the built things in the release tarball run. While this isn't
>> suitable for inclusion in to Guix, it does still work.
>
> Do you know if we’re missing a lot of the Java dependencies to build it
> from source?

Unfortunately not, I haven't attempted to build it from source.