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Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies? |
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Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:06:31 +0200 |
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"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> I don't think so. Running ./bootstrap is not part of the normal process
>>>> for *building*
>>>> guix - only for bootstrapping. But you are right - it is common to want
>>>> to do that.
>>>> For this reason I often run:
>>>>
>>>> guix environment guix --ad-hoc automake autoconf texinfo help2man
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But perhaps you are right - the manual might want to mention this.
>>>>
>>>> J'
>>>
>>> That makes sense. I feel like it used to provide all the dependencies,
>>> including autoconf etc., but that was months ago, and I might be
>>> mis-remembering. It works fine when I add the needed bootstrap
>>> dependencies with --ad-hoc.
>>
>> In fact there’s a small time window during which “guix environment guix”
>> doesn’t provide autoconf et al.: it’s when the ‘guix’ variable in (gnu
>> packages package-management) refers to a released tarball instead of a
>> Git checkout, since a build from tarball doesn’t depend on autoconf et
>> al.
>>
>> So if you run “guix environment guix” on a commit different from
>> v0.11.0 + 1, you effectively get all the dependencies.
>>
>> I admit this is a bit confusing. Not sure how to document/improve that.
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> How about a public guix-devel package that always builds from the Git repo?
Good idea. I guess it could essentially be an alias for the current
‘guix-devel’. Could you look into it and update the docs accordingly?
Thanks! :-)
Ludo’.
- guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, John Darrington, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/09/28
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Thompson, David, 2016/09/29
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/30
- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?,
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- Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies?, Chris Marusich, 2016/09/30