Hello,
I'm trying to write a recipe to install GNU typist:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
Just to be clear, one cannot install gtypist with "guix package -i
gtypist", because guix does not currently have a recipe for gtypist.
Anyway, I used guix download <path to tarball> to download the
tarball for gtypist. It is stored locally on my machine in this path:
/nix/store/lzxd537h0plmskizrldx6lmpyacl2d40-gtypist-2.9.4.tar.gz
I used guix hash -f base32 to export the base32 hash, which is:
i5q225g6twsg5egicgpt6ub7hn4m7pdzg56hwxx57jm4o4ns5fgq
I've written a recipe for gtypist located here:
http://pastebin.com/ysLHJUWg
But now, I'm stuck. I'm not sure how to tell guix to run the
recipe. Guix's documentation says that the command "guix build options
package-or-derivation"
will build the package into a binary that I can run on my machine.
I can't say "guix build gtypist", because guix does not currently have a
recipe to build gtypist, and I can't say "guix build options
/path/to/gtypist.dri", because there is not a derivation file on my
machine for gtypist.
What do I do next to build this package? How do I submit a patch
when I get it working?
Thanks,
Joshua
