Should ‘./configure’ fail when makeinfo is missing?

2013-09-06 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Should ‘./configure’ check for makeinfo? ‘make’ will fail when makeinfo isn’t installed. pgp6b8ytEaZGE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options

2013-09-05 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
BTW, what did you think of the idea of using recutils format as the output? (Either as the sole output format, or otherwise as a secondary format.) I like the idea. It’s always better to use a documented format, especially when it comes with a mode for Emacs. And don’t forget that

MIPS64/N64 support (was: Goals for 0.4)

2013-09-03 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
• MIPS64/N64 support: the bootstrap tarballs are now all available through cross-compilation from x86_64, so it’s “just” a matter of feeding them in bootstrap.scm and trying out. I’m also interested in this one. Oh, I forgot that I’ll need five tarballs, not two [1]. Can I get the other

Re: 'substitute*' fails with string contains #\nul character

2013-08-20 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Another possible solution is to ship our own bootstrap binary (like we do with Guile and Bash). But first, I’ll try to patch it. Are you OK with that? With shipping a binary of GHC? Well, if that’s the only reasonable way to do it, then yes. GNU/MIT Scheme does that for instance, but

Re: 'substitute*' fails with string contains #\nul character

2013-08-18 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I can’t find anything relevant there. I suppose that Nix people don’t have to touch those binaries since they have ‘/bin/sh’ in a chroot. What string exactly are you trying to patch? Just /bin/sh? In which binary? For now, at least ‘/bin/sh’ in ‘inplace/bin/ghc-cabal’. I’m not sure

Re: patch for list-packages

2013-08-12 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Btw, I can't see the patches as attachements, only inlined. Is it a problem with my mail client or does everybody witness the same behaviour ? I see the same. They also appear inline in the archives [1]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-08/msg4.html

'substitute*' fails with string contains #\nul character (was: 'patchelf' doesn't change shared libraries)

2013-07-16 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
/ghc.scm new file mode 100644 index 000..1a3d308 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/ghc.scm @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU +;;; Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org +;;; +;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. +;;; +;;; GNU Guix is free

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