From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: swedebugia@riseup.net
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guile 2.0.11 error during test of package definition on Trisquel 7
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:46:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zivwtvxb.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a810622e2df254ebd0f9233c55f3020@riseup.net>
swedebugia@riseup.net writes:
> I tried following the manual build* from a fresh git pull.
>
> From 7.6:
> " ./pre-inst-env guix build gnew --keep-failed
> If the package is unknown to the ‘guix’ command, it may be that the
> source file contains a syntax error, or lacks a ‘define-public’ clause
> to export the package variable. To figure it out, you may load the
> module from Guile to get more information about the actual error:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (gnu packages gnew))'"
>
> After putting the new package definition below into python.scm:
> (define-public python-twisted
> (package
> (name "python-twisted")
> (version "15.5.0")
> (source
> (origin
> (method url-fetch)
> ; (extension "tar.bz2")
> ; (uri (pypi-uri "Twisted" version extension))
> (uri (pypi-uri "Twisted" version))
> (sha256
> (base32
> "0zy18lcrris4aaslil5k12i13k56c32hzfdv6h10kbnzl026h158"))))
> (build-system python-build-system)
> (inputs
> `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools)))
> (home-page "http://twistedmatrix.com/")
> (synopsis
> "An asynchronous networking framework written in Python")
> (description
> "An asynchronous networking framework written in Python")
> (license license:expat)))
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build cannot find it.
Is there more output? Sometimes syntax errors or otherwise invalid
expressions are reported as guix build fails to find the package.
From what I can tell “./pre-inst-env guix build python-twisted” should
just work. I have never had to use the “guile -c” way.
~~ Ricardo
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2016-01-22 20:58 Guile 2.0.11 error during test of package definition on Trisquel 7 swedebugia
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