working on guix: how to

working on guix: how to

[Catonano]

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Hello people

How do I hack on guix ?

I read about "guix environment guix" and that's ok

I also read that a special guile command can be thaught to Geiser so I
guess I could teach Geiser to use the Guile provided by "guix environment
guix". Right ?

But say I want to make a small modification on the actually running guix
and see the effect live.

How do I access the code of the guix running in the env provided by "guix
environment guix" ?

That is, how do I "incrementally" develop Guix ?

With "incrementally develop" I mean interactively testing snippets of code
and making small edits and then iterate

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Re: working on guix: how to

[Matthew Jordan]

Hi Catonano,

Here is what I usually do;

$ guix environment guix --ad-hoc help2man git strace
$ eval `guix environment guix --ad-hoc --search-paths help2man git strace`

Initial setup
$ git clone --recurse git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git

Update
$ git pull --recurse-submodules

Build
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --localstate=/var
$ make
$ make check

Runs in the foreground
#optional unless editing daemon code
$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild

$ export GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS="--keep-failed --verbosity=3"
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello &>/dev/stdout &>${BUILD_LOG}

The Guix manual also has some useful information on contributing.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Matthew Jordan
Sent with my mu4e

Re: working on guix: how to

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:

> How do I hack on guix ?

As Matthew suggests, please take a look at:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Contributing.html

If you find some questions are unanswered, please let us know!

HTH,
Ludo’.

Re: working on guix: how to

[Catonano]

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2016-06-04 22:33 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:

> Hello!
>
> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > How do I hack on guix ?
>
> As Matthew suggests, please take a look at:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Contributing.html
>
> If you find some questions are unanswered, please let us know!
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.
>

Thanks to the bot of you

I have a phobia for reading manuals and I had missed the art about how to
get to a REPL for an interactive session.

I managed to make the repl listen and have Geiser connect to it.

Now for the next question ;-)

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