Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Sep 26 2023, Daniel Littlewood wrote:
> 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
> n
Hi wolf,
I have now tried that, and I was able to build from the tarball and
test my local changes. Indeed, I was confused previously - I always
assumed that the release tarball was a binary; I had no idea there was
a distinction between "building from VCS" and "building from the
archive". Thank y
