Re: Debugging cross-compilation dependencies

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! "Philip McGrath" skribis: > Much to my surprise, I discovered I can avoid the problem by changing code > for #:make-flags like this: > > ``` > #~(string-append "ZUO=" > #$(this-package-native-input "zuo") > "/bin/zuo"))

Re: Debugging cross-compilation dependencies

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! "Philip McGrath" skribis: > Much to my surprise, I discovered I can avoid the problem by changing code > for #:make-flags like this: > > ``` > #~(string-append "ZUO=" > #$(this-package-native-input "zuo") > "/bin/zuo"))

Re: Garbage Collector

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Felix Lechner via skribis: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried wrote: >> >> The manual says that it is dangerous to use: "guix gc" >> because it can delete too much. > > I agree that 'guix gc' deletes too much, but it's probably not > dangerous. You will just see some downloads and

Re: uninstall/unmanage guix home on my foreign system

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi jgart, jgart skribis: > How can I "uninstall" guix home or have it not manage my dotfiles or a > particular subset of dotfiles that I no longer want managed? Good question; I don’t think there’s an easy way to escape, it’s a bit of a trap. :-) What I would do is something like this (untes

Re: partial guix pack?

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Tai skribis: > Can a guix pack be partial? By that I meant one package that is not > completely stand alone but only contains a subset of needed software, > bundled libraries. for example, one that bundles specific version of > gtk+ but not glibc? Of course such a package depends on

Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Phil, Phil skribis: > My own experience is that whilst it doesn't require a PhD to setup Guix > for the enterprise, it is a non-trivial journey, and it does require > a fair amount of time and effort to create something that regular > developers/scientists (i.e. non-Guix converts who just wan

Re: managing waiting patches

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Nicolas, Thanks for your message. Patch review is overall rather slow due to a mixture of Guix being a victim of its success and (perhaps more importantly) having too few people devoting time to patch review, and too few committers committing. This was discussed recently on guix-devel and

Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2022-08-06, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> On 2022-08-06 20:48, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >>> guix pull: error: commit 39465409f0481f27d252ce25d2b02d3f5cbc6723 >>> not signed by an authorized key: >>> 2841 9AC6 5038 7440 C7E9 2FFA 2208 D209 58C1 DEB0 >> >

GIO_EXTRA_MODULES breaking foreign-distro programs

2022-08-09 Thread Philip McGrath
Hi, I've encountered an issue with GIO_EXTRA_MODULES from my Guix profile preventing binaries from my foreign distro (Kubuntu 22.04) from running. The initial symptom was that running e.g. `/usr/bin/flatpak list` would terminate with the error: > /usr/bin/flatpak: symbol lookup error: > /gnu/s

Re: managing waiting patches

2022-08-09 Thread Nicolas Graves via
On 2022-08-09 22:54, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This was discussed recently on guix-devel and I hope we can collectively > improve on that. The new teams that we devised (see ‘etc/teams.scm’) > should help, though we have yet to document them and publicize them. Thanks for your answer, I'll check

Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

2022-08-09 Thread Yasuaki Kudo
Let's do this! My partners and I are fired up about the idea and we would like this to be developed, along the way we continue to serve customers (or co-creators, in our worker coop world😄). Realistic, step by step implementation, niche to niche, until we make it big! 😄 -Yasu > On Aug 10, 202

Re: Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:57 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Yes, this is something we should do. For what it's worth, I now use 'history' for primary development branches when possible. To me, it establishes a preeminence among branches by function rather than name. Plus, I like writing "It wa

Re: Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:57 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Yes, this is something we should do. For what it's worth, I now use 'history' for primary development branches when possible. For me, it establishes a preeminence among branches by function rather than name. Plus, I like writing "It

a vector of colors

2022-08-09 Thread jgart
Hi, Why was this defined as a vector instead of a list? (define %colors ;; See colortbl.h in Graphviz. #("red" "magenta" "blue" "cyan3" "darkseagreen" "peachpuff4" "darkviolet" "dimgrey" "darkgoldenrod"))