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Re: Development shell for diffutils does not appear to work - what am I
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Carlo Zancanaro |
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Re: Development shell for diffutils does not appear to work - what am I doing wrong? |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:23:45 +1000 |
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mu4e 1.10.7; emacs 29.0.92 |
Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Sep 26 2023, Daniel Littlewood wrote:
> I want to try out making a simple change to the program `diff`, which is part
> of GNU diffutils: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/diffutils/3.8/ I'd
> like to set up a dev environment, patch diff.c, rebuild it and try out the
> new binary. Maybe install it globally later, but I'm not there yet.
There's a few emails in this thread about how to get your git clone working,
but I thought it might also be helpful to mention a potentially easier workflow
here.
The --development argument gives you an environment that is suitable for
hacking on the source that "guix build --source" gives you. With that in mind,
I just checked that this works:
$ tar xf $(guix build --source diffutils)
$ cd diffutils-3.8/
$ guix shell --development diffutils -- ./configure
... lots of output ...
$ guix shell --development diffutils -- make
... lots of output ...
Then you can change the source in the diffutils-3.8 directory and recompile it
with "guix shell --development diffutils -- make".
If you want to install it to a profile later, you can use something like "guix
install diffutils --with-source=path/to/diffutils-3.8/".
If you then want to upstream your changes, you can manually move your fixes
into a git checkout.
Carlo
Re: Development shell for diffutils does not appear to work - what am I doing wrong?,
Carlo Zancanaro <=