Development shell for diffutils does not appear to work - what am I doing wrong?

2023-09-26 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi guix help, I want to try out making a simple change to the program `diff`, which is part of GNU diffutils: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/diffutils/3.8/ I'd like to set up a dev environment, patch diff.c, rebuild it and try out the new binary. Maybe install it globally later, but I'm no

Julia version update

2023-09-26 Thread Mauritz Stenek
Hello, The latest guix julia package is version v1.8.3, any idea when will it be updated to the latest version (i.e. v1.9.3)? Thanks. -- Mauritz Stenek

Re: Git error: object not found when running guix system reconfigure

2023-09-26 Thread Jussi Timperi
Hi, I have the same issue. I dug out this issue https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40769 and tried > deleting ~/.cache/guix/checkouts, but this had no effect. > Deleting /root/.cache/guix/checkouts fixes it for me temporarily.

Re: arm-none-eabi-toolchain: stdlib.h not found

2023-09-26 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
ElenQ Technology --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 at 22:28, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > > --- Original Message --- > On Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 at 18:09, Ekaitz Zarraga eka...@elenq.tech > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > If I guix shell to arm

Re: arm-none-eabi-toolchain: stdlib.h not found

2023-09-26 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
--- Original Message --- On Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 at 18:09, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Hi, > > If I guix shell to arm-none-eabi-toolchain: > > `Ekaitz@tuxedo ~/projects/TESTS$ guix shell arm-none-eabi-toolchain` > > arm-none-eabi-toolchain can't use cstdlib because: > > ``` > Eka

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
> 1 is for quiet output; 2 is similar to 1 but it additionally displays > download URLs; > it additionally displays I think it is confusing to use the word "additionally" here as there is nothing that we know about the quiet output for the description that let's us then conceptualize what wil

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
Hi Maxim, But it's not below in the --help of `guix build` command. It just says > use the given verbosity LEVEL ``` [jgart@fedora_user ~]$ guix build --help ... -d, --derivations return the derivation paths of the given packages --checkrebuild items to check for non-de

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, "jgart" writes: > Hi Maxim, > > That's awesome documentation! Thanks for doing that. Approved. > Do you want to merge this? There seems to be a misunderstanding; it's already documented. If you run the info command I shared you'll see I copied the text from there. -- Thanks, Maxim

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-09-26 Thread jgart
Hi Maxim, That's awesome documentation! Thanks for doing that. Approved. Do you want to merge this? yours truly, jgart

Re: -v, --verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL

2023-09-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi jgart, "jgart" writes: > Hi Guixers, > > Where should the user of the Guix command-line interface be expected > to read about the verbosity LEVEL argument that they can pass to > `--verbosity` and that is also valid? See info '(guix) Invoking guix build': --8<---cut here

Recursive substitute-keyword-arguments / setting default on build system

2023-09-26 Thread nils
Hello, I use a slightly customized emacs package, and want to use it as the package that is used in emacs-build-system for the emacs plugins I'm using. The default emacs gets garbage collected and takes quite a while to reinstall, I would like to avoid that. Also, it seems cleaner to build the p