[email protected] writes: > I tried following the manual build* from a fresh git pull. > > From 7.6: > " ./pre-inst-env guix build gnew --keep-failed > If the package is unknown to the ‘guix’ command, it may be that the > source file contains a syntax error, or lacks a ‘define-public’ clause > to export the package variable. To figure it out, you may load the > module from Guile to get more information about the actual error: > > ./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (gnu packages gnew))'" > > After putting the new package definition below into python.scm: > (define-public python-twisted > (package > (name "python-twisted") > (version "15.5.0") > (source > (origin > (method url-fetch) > ; (extension "tar.bz2") > ; (uri (pypi-uri "Twisted" version extension)) > (uri (pypi-uri "Twisted" version)) > (sha256 > (base32 > "0zy18lcrris4aaslil5k12i13k56c32hzfdv6h10kbnzl026h158")))) > (build-system python-build-system) > (inputs > `(("python-setuptools" ,python-setuptools))) > (home-page "http://twistedmatrix.com/";) > (synopsis > "An asynchronous networking framework written in Python") > (description > "An asynchronous networking framework written in Python") > (license license:expat))) > > ./pre-inst-env guix build cannot find it.
Is there more output? Sometimes syntax errors or otherwise invalid expressions are reported as guix build fails to find the package. >From what I can tell “./pre-inst-env guix build python-twisted” should just work. I have never had to use the “guile -c” way. ~~ Ricardo
