Re: building emacs from tarball inside guix env

[Adam Kandur via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

hi it helped. after "guix environment emacs" configuration was ok. but there some additional questions i have:
1) where "guix environment emacs" look for env description?
2) i tried to recreate env using inputs described in gnu/packages/emacs.scm in emacs package but got error described in the first message. is there way for manual recreating environment that i didn't notice?
2) what is better way to build sources as they are (from tar, just for testing, not for packaging)?



Aug 20, 2020, 12:04 by jsoo1@asu.edu:

> Hi Adam,
>
> The guix environment command by default gives an environment *required to build* the given package. 
>
> In this case
>
> guix environment emacs
>
> Should get you close. Then you can combine with the ad-hoc flag to adjust if the requirements of the tarball are different than the package definition in guix. 
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> John
>