Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Kyle
Thanks, Andreas! For my own education I just tried running ./configure with no arguments on Ubuntu and it ran without error. I wasnt actually able to run pre-inst-env afterwards though since I am not an administrator on that system. That behavior, though, seems consistent with what I think you

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Kyle, Am Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 03:10:02AM + schrieb Kyle Andrews: > configure: error: chosen localstatedir '/usr/local/var' does not match that > of the existing installation '/var' you should do exactly as suggested: Before running "make", configure the Guix source code not by "./confi

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Since I am not that excited about corrupting my /gnu/store given > that I don't know what I am doing, I didn't proceed further. you shouldn't worry until you actually install some packages that you have modified. a subsequent `guix gc` will delete anything you have produced into /gnu/store but

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-09 Thread Julien Lepiller
As the message says, use ./configure --localstatedir=/var :) Le 10 février 2023 04:10:02 GMT+01:00, Kyle Andrews a écrit : > >Dear Guix, > >I am not very comfortable editing Guix source code. However, I would >very much like to add a new backend for `guix graph`. Right now guix >graph description

Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-09 Thread Kyle Andrews
Dear Guix, I am not very comfortable editing Guix source code. However, I would very much like to add a new backend for `guix graph`. Right now guix graph descriptions can only be exported into special purpose tools like graphviz, D3, and cypher. I would like to add a fourth option which would s