From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:50:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20181016074412.54757b18@alma-ubu> <20181016082350.75757e6b@alma-ubu> <20181017001851.71543cc9@alma-ubu> <20181017091750.1c408b8d@alma-ubu> <20181018085424.541e9287@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD359-00027j-QB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:51:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD358-0006Mc-H0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:50:59 -0400 Received: from mail-oi1-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::244]:45797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gD358-0006K6-9Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:50:58 -0400 Received: by mail-oi1-x244.google.com with SMTP id e17-v6so23240022oig.12 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:50:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20181018085424.541e9287@alma-ubu> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus Wow, Bj=C3=B6rn, you were so fast again :) I just got around this right now. Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling ezt =C3=ADrta (= id=C5=91pont: 2018. okt. 18., Cs, 8:54): > > Hi Laura, > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:36:02 -0300 > Laura Lazzati wrote: > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.ht= ml#Contributing > > I have already read this chapter, but I am messed up. I have already > > cloned from git, but I have some questions: > > 1) Do I need to install everything from the git repo in my distro? > > I'm not sure if I understand you right. You ask if you "need to install > everything from the git in my distro?". I don't get that. Let me tell > what I mean: > > You cloned that one, right? > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > That is the source code of Guix. I.e. when you do a > > guix package -i hello > > then you use the binary "guix" command that you installed in the > beginning. And the repository you cloned is just the source code, there > is nothing in there that you need to install. > > > Maybe you ment the list of software that is written here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git > > When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required i= n addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions (see Require= ments). > > GNU Autoconf; > GNU Automake; > GNU Gettext; > GNU Texinfo; > Graphviz; > GNU Help2man (optional). > > So, yeah. In order to compile Guix from source, you need all these. > > But wait, read the next sentence. You have guix already installed. Guix > provides a VERY nice command, `guix envirionment `. With that, > Guix prepares an "environment" that can be directly used to build > . > > So, if you enter: > > guix environment guix > > then Guix will know best what software in which version it needs in > order to build guix (in this case, itself, don't get trapped by that > self-circularity :-)) > > When you are in, you can just follow the next steps described: > > ./bootstrap > ./configure --localstatedir=3D/var > make > > When that went all through well, you can install the "hello" > application: > > ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello > > The "./pre-inst-env" tells that you want to use the guix command that > you just built, not the one that is somewhere else on your path. > > Now you just go on: > > > 2) How do I convert my template into a package? I can't figure out > > that part. > > You don't have to CONVERT. That template IS a package: > > > > (define-public r-aspi > > > (package > > > (name "r-aspi") > > What you do is you just open the file gnu/packages/r.scm and add your > "(define... " at the end. > > Ehh, wait, there is no file r.scm. It is either cran.scm or > bioinformatics.scm. > > Then you are done. Try to build it: > > ./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi > > Bj=C3=B6rn > > > Thank you! g_bor