Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: build: Compile scheme modules in batches (was Re: Release!)

2017-10-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >>> Well… I just noticed that guix pull doesn’t even use compile-all.scm; it >>> uses build-self.scm, so this patch has no effect on “guix pull”. >> >> Right, this should be tested with “make”. >> >> If it works fine here, we can port it to (guix build pull). > > Okay. I’

Re: Search paths in packages

2017-10-09 Thread Roel Janssen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Roel, > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> I have a question about how search paths are handled in Guix. >> So, I have a package that tries to set an environment variable: >> DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH. >> >> So, I tried: >> (native-search-paths >> (list (search-path-specific

Re: Search paths in packages

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Roel, Roel Janssen skribis: > I have a question about how search paths are handled in Guix. > So, I have a package that tries to set an environment variable: > DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH. > > So, I tried: > (native-search-paths > (list (search-path-specification > (variable "DRMAA_LI

Re: Release!

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Baines skribis: > On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:01:42 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Heya! >> >> Christopher Baines skribis: >> >> > Unfortunately, building the ISO image has broken since I was >> > successfully using it [1]. >> >> Oops, weird. Let’s investigate. >

Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: build: Compile scheme modules in batches (was Re: Release!)

2017-10-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
>> Well… I just noticed that guix pull doesn’t even use compile-all.scm; it >> uses build-self.scm, so this patch has no effect on “guix pull”. > > Right, this should be tested with “make”. > > If it works fine here, we can port it to (guix build pull). Okay. I’ll try this some time this week, a

Re: Reproducible Build Summit, Oct. 31st, Berlin

2017-10-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hey, L> So, who’s in? :-) J> I am planning to go, sad you won't be there. L> Awesome, really glad that you can attend—let the bootstrapper’s voice to L> be heard! I’m also planning to attend; already contacted Holger. I’m looking forward to discussing questions of bootstrapping and user-facin

Search paths in packages

2017-10-09 Thread Roel Janssen
Dear Guix, I have a question about how search paths are handled in Guix. So, I have a package that tries to set an environment variable: DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH. So, I tried: (native-search-paths (list (search-path-specification (variable "DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH") (files '("li

Re: Reproducible Build Summit, Oct. 31st, Berlin

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Sorry for the late notice: the Reproducible Build Summit will take place >> from Oct. 31st to Nov. 2nd in Berlin this year: >> >> https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2017/ > >> In the two previous editions, there were al

Re: NFS mounts

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > does anyone have an example of a system configuration that mounts an NFS > share at boot time? It seems that this requires some extra services and > also some additional packages (to have mount.nfs for example). Indeed, the initrd would need an extra package,

Re: Release!

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >>> Here are some important items I can think of: > […] >>> • Guile 2.2 compiler terrible issue: >>> . I should mention that I spent entire days on this, and some of the conclusions are des

Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: build: Compile scheme modules in batches (was Re: Release!)

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Hi Ludo, >> Here are some important items I can think of: >> […] • Guile 2.2 compiler terrible issue: . >> >> One way to side-step this issue for t

Re: [PATCH] DRAFT: build: Compile scheme modules in batches (was Re: Release!)

2017-10-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> I've attached a workaround that I've been using for the last 6 weeks on my MIPS-based Yeeloong running GuixSD, since it only has 1 GB of RAM and otherwise it would not be able to successfully build th

Re: Wrong hashes for libgit2 archives

2017-10-09 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 08.10.2017 um 19:40 schrieb Leo Famulari: > The auto-generated GitHub snapshots, which is what we use for libgit2, > are not created deterministically: I was afraid of this :-( But this is a good argument why projects should *release* archives. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel

Re: Release!

2017-10-09 Thread Christopher Baines
On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:01:42 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Heya! > > Christopher Baines skribis: > > > Unfortunately, building the ISO image has broken since I was > > successfully using it [1]. > > Oops, weird. Let’s investigate. I'm very glad that now I've removed the set