On 2023-10-19 16:47:13 +0000, Hiep Pham wrote:
> On 10/18/23 21:00, wolf wrote:
> > On 2023-10-18 18:24:48 +0000, Hiep Pham wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to bump `jsonnet` version from 0.17.0 to 0.20.0 from the master
> >> branch of the `guix` repository. I edited the version in
> >> `gnu/packages/cpp.scm`:
> >>
> >> (define-public jsonnet
> >>     (package
> >>       (name "jsonnet")
> >>       (version "0.20.0")
> >>       [snip]
> >>     ))
> > [trim]
> >>
> >> 2. Followed the contributing guide [1], I created a shell instead:
> > 
> > I believe this is the preferred way.
> > 
> >>
> >> guix shell -C -D guix git help2man strace
> >> ./bootstrap
> >> ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> > 
> > I would recommend to use
> > 
> >      ./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
> > 
> > as described in the latest version of the manual:
> > 
> > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html
> > 
> > (notice the /devel/ in the path).  Your version is from 1.4.0 version of the
> > manual and it has some limitations.
> 
> Okay, so I followed exactly this, and ...
> 
> >>
> >> This generated `pre-inst-env`, but `make` step failed with:
> >>
> >> ```
> >>     MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info
> >> contributing.de.texi:1659: @menu reference to nonexistent node
> >> `Configuring Git'
> >> contributing.de.texi:1660: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Sending
> >> a Patch Series'
> >> make[2]: *** [Makefile:5003: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1
> >> ```
> > 
> > Yes, this happens when you try to build guix source using too old guix version.
> > So try to run `guix pull' first and then attempt to compile it again.  It should
> > succeed.
> 
> 
> I ran `guix pull` but no luck for me. I still met the same error when I 
> was running `make`:

What version of makeinfo is present?  For me:

$ guix shell -D guix -- makeinfo --version
texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.8


> 
> ```
> contributing.de.texi:1659: @menu reference to nonexistent node 
> `Configuring Git'
> contributing.de.texi:1660: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Sending 
> a Patch Series'
> ```
> 
> My `guix describe` (on my Fedora machine):
> 
> ```
>    guix c065da0
>      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>      branch: master
>      commit: c065da01ff956d3c2bdfc45a33d910e509a211d9
> ```
> 
> c065da01ff956d3c2bdfc45a33d910e509a211d9 is the latest commit on Oct 19, 
> 2023.
> 
> And my `which guix` is:
> 
> /home/[username]/.config/guix/current/bin/guix

I have to admit, I am unsure what the problem exactly is.  Unless someone else
comes with a better idea, what you could try:

1. Clean up the git worktree (I use `git clean -xffd')
2. Do the whole process step-by-step again
3. Send here the full output (commands executed and their output); also include
   both guix describe output and git commit of the guix repository you are on

Maybe there will be more ideas based on that.  Sorry I cannot be of more use.

> 
> >>
> >> So I was blocked to progress further :(
> >>
> > 
> > After that the pre-inst-env should work.
> > 
> >>
> >> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Contributing
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Hiep
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > W.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Hiep
> 
> 
>

W.

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