Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package

[Laura Lazzati]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 4:29 AM Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello Ricardo,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 19., P 9:10):
>>
>>
>> Hi Laura,
>>
>> > with guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc coreutils findutils which (or 
>> > -C)
>> > I get, the output:
>> > Command 'lesspipe' is available in the following places
>> >  * /bin/lesspipe
>> >  * /usr/bin/lesspipe
>> > The command could not be located because '/bin:/usr/bin' is not
>> > included in the PATH environment variable.
>> > lesspipe: command not found
>>
>> This is because your shell initialization code (e.g. to set up the
>> prompt) refers to lesspipe.  You can ignore this or remove the fancy
>> initialization.
>>
>> > There, I run which guix and get:
>> > which: no guix in
>> > (/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/bin:/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/sbin)
>>
>> That’s because “--pure” resets the PATH; that’s by design.  The only
>> problem you have is that your Guix is located elsewhere.  But why do you
>> need Guix itself inside of an environment to build Guix?
>>
>> The point of using “guix environment --pure guix” is only to enter a
>> clean environment containing everything you need to build Guix from
>> source.  So once you’re inside of this environment you can run the
>> bootstrap and configure scripts, and run make to compile the sources.
>>
>> To *use* that Guix you just built you need to use “./pre-inst-env guix”
>> from the source directory.
>>
>> > The closest I got was by setting:
>> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/:/bin
>> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
>>
>> This defeats the purpose of using “--pure” as these directories contain
>> all sorts of things on a foreign distro, so you lose control over the
>> environment.

I am glad to tell you that I have followed all the commands, I will
copy some of them here just in case, and saved the output in my daily
journal of everything :)

guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc coreutils findutils which
./bootstrap
./configure --localstatedir=/var
make
echo $? ->got 0
which guix -> got
no guix in 
(/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/bin:/gnu/store/khk3lpx1li9y5zxzdppn9wi4n5g1qsgs-profile/sbin)
./pre-inst-env guix package --help -> worked fine!
./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello -> the same
./pre-inst-env guix package -i emacs
export PATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
export INFOPATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/share/info${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"
(with this two exports, I could run hello and emacs without problems)
./pre-inst-env guix package -i nss-certs
Played a lot with
./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi
and
emacs gnu/packages/cran.scm
until I found out that there were syntax errors, mismatches in
parenthesis and so on, and in the last
./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi got:
;;; note: source file /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.go
(still that) but:
successfully built /gnu/store/bmapswnk9li1nscfpirgzsy3npw9hyql-r-aspi-0.2.0.drv
/gnu/store/a3apqwf4hy67ms462hn802gk89x99mzh-r-aspi-0.2.0

I am following the contribution guide now, to send the patch, I ran
./pre-inst-env guix lint r-aspi
;;; note: source file /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /home/laura/guix/gnu/packages/cran.go
fetching CVE database for 2018...
fetching CVE database for 2017...
fetching CVE database for 2016...
fetching CVE database for 2015...

Is this output OK?

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>
> Sorry, my bad, I missed that.
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>>
>> --
>> Ricardo
>
> g_bor

Regards!
Laura