Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Hey Ricardo,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> Yes, last time I tried I had a similar issue: this is because you need
>>> the latest guile-sdl2 and guile-opengl.
>>
>> There does not seem to be a more recent guile-opengl.  I have added
>> guile-sdl2-devel, which is built from the latest git commit.
>>
>> I also updated guile-chickadee to use the latest version from git.
>> Unfortunately, it still won’t build.
>>
>>> As I mentioned in an e-mail I've sent recently, I'd like to update the 2
>>> package definitions in Guix and add Chickadee to the Guix repo.
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I’d prefer to use only released versions in Guix unless it cannot be
>> avoided to use development versions.
>
> Turns out that the Makefile of guile-sdl2 needed to be patched.  After
> the patch Chickadee can be built with the release tarball.
>
> I’ll push the package definition shortly.

Could you tell me the commit id when you push it? I'd like to just
sort out the issues you were having and make new releases of
guile-sdl2 and chickadee so that Guix can have clean packages with no
hackery involved.

Thanks,

- Dave