Re: xmonad, xmonad-contrib & GHC_PACKAGE_PATH?

Hello, I thought I had opened an issue about this but I must have kept it in my TODOs. The haskell-build-system does not put outputs in the right place for the ghc profile hook. xmonad --recompile should Just Work with any installed haskell-build-system libraries installed via guix. I’ve been m

Re: Haskell program build and run using Cabal

Hello, There are a few problems with the ghc ecosystem in guix right now (unless they have been fixed in the last month or so). The following is relevant to you. Our version of cabal-install is incompatible with the default ghc version: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/45055 The fix for this is to u

Re: bug#45776: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Hello zimoun, I believe it can be closed, thanks! - John

Re: Make changes to be applied after guix install and system reconfigure?

Hi znavko, You need to remove gcc and install gcc-toolchain instead. Hope that helps, John

Re: Emacs Guix and channels

Hi Sergiu, As far as I understand it, that is bug in emacs-guix, apologies.There is certainly a lot to fix. Kindly, John

Re: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Some should be closed, and bug-guix should be removed from the thread.

Re: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Hi zimoun, zimoun writes: > Choosing the C toolchain and propagating one are not really related. Good point. > I mean, one C toolchain could be propagated by default, so then GHC works > out-of-the-box. And the build transformation ’--with-c-toolchain’ > should provide the flexibility to use

Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Hi yasu, This question comes up on the mailing list every so often, but I don’t think it is a bug. I want to be able to choose the c toolchain ghc uses myself. I would rather introduce some Haskell specific documentation. We discussed during the guix day that we w

Re: Bug? Haskell GHC wont' work since ghc@8.6?

Hi yasu, Compiling with ghc requires a c toolchain (like gcc-toolchain) installed to work. Can you try again after installing gcc-toolchain?Ghc has not been perfect for me recently but I use it quite a lot. Hope that helps, John

Re: How to replace a system package with a patched version in system configuration?

Hello, The operating system and several services and bootloader configurations already have keyboard-layouts as parameters. What keyboard configuration do you need? Hth, John

Re: Emacs use-package: Guix backend?

Hey guix, I was perusing the use-package docs and it seems guix is already somewhat supported. Have you seen :ensure-system-package? https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#use-package-ensure-system-package The system-package dependency lists guix as supported. I suppose one diff

Re: Integrate Guix GUI programs into foreign distro's desktop?

Hey Hartmut, You may want to look into wrap-program which is used in many packages. Similar things are done I. The glib-or-gtk-build-system (I think it is called). Hope that helps, John

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

Ah I see. My mistake.It appears there are proprietary components inside the remarkable. My apologies. - John

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

Hi Pierre! It’s not really an e-reader but the remarkable series is powered by a lot of free software and is very hackable. Maybe one day our images will be small enough to put onto these small systems :) - John

Re: Making file writable

Hey Tomás, Could you share your definition and errors? Maybe we can help better if we had more information. Kindly, John

Making file writable

Hey Tomás, Check your parens: (for-each (make-file-writable (find-files "\\.yml$"))) Should be (for-each make-file-writable (find-files "\\.yml$")) That’s because for-each is a higher order function which takes a procedure and a list.

Re: Unaltered Git source

Hello Stephen, You may also use make-file-writable to change permissions as you need. HTH, John

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

Good to have you! A mention and description of purely functional package management ideas I think would be very welcome in the documentation. Good luck, John

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

Hello and welcome Martin! The Unix time stamp is set to 0 for one thing to ensure reproducible builds. If two build artifacts suffered in time stamps, they would be considered different. Hope you find guix helpful and hackable, John

Re: Modification date of /gnu/store files is 1970-01-01

Oops s/suffered/differed

Re: Error in package building : error[E0463]: can't find crate for `openssl_src`

Hi Hamzeh, First, make sure openssl is a standard input instead of a native one. I am not sure that will fix the problem here though. Most likely we will need an openssl-src package that uses the system source. Good luck, John

Re: Error in package building : error[E0463]: can't find crate for `openssl_src`

Hello Hamzeh, It would be preferable if you can avoid using the vendored openssl. Did you add openssl as an input to the package? Can you share what you have so far please? - John P.s. please avoid bottom quoting on the list

Re: Error in package building : error[E0463]: can't find crate for `openssl_src`

Hello Hamzeh, Take a look at gnu/packages/crates-io.scm for other examples of rust-openssl. We try to avoid vendored sources. Recent versions of rust-openssl-sys also complicate this by requiring particular versions of openssl.While it’s nice that they are explicit about the depen

Re: How do I install neovim plugins?

Hello Yasu, I use a manifest file and guix-package -m to do declarative installations. I find it strikes a nice balance between having to rebuild for every configuration change and making my environment declarative. Good luck! - John

Re: Cross gcc-toolchain

Alright I’ll keep you posted!

Re: Cross gcc-toolchain

Thanks again raingloom!

Re: Cross gcc-toolchain

Thanks raingloom, What branch and file should I start with? - John

Re: Cross gcc-toolchain

Hi raingloom, How did you try packaging it? Do you think inheriting from gcc and friends would be a good start? Thanks! John

Cross gcc-toolchain

Hi Guix, I am looking into ghc on ARM and the process seems like it only requires a separate gcc toolchain specified during configure. I have not packaged a gcc-toolchain yet, so I am looking for pointers. Would the gcc toolchain for cross compiling (say, from x86 to aarch64) be as simple as pr

Re: Eog not starting

Hi there, I’ve run into this too, thanks for the tip! Instead of propagating the input, can we use wrap-program to wrap gnome programs with the right packages? - John

Re: building emacs from tarball inside guix env

Hi Adam, The guix environment command by default gives an environment *required to build* the given package. In this case guix environment emacs Should get you close. Then you can combine with the ad-hoc flag to adjust if the requirements of the tarball are different than the package definit

Re: running gui aps in docker

Hi Adam, I’ve heard xpra works well for this purpose: https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Usage/Docker Hope that helps, John

Re: Hide boot process logs

Hey Reza and Guix, I should add that even if it is not supported now, hacking on the grub configuration is not too difficult and is located in gnu/bootloader/grub.scm. You should be able to specify parameters there. Hope that helps, John

Re: Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

Hi Christopher, I usually use the log in Magit, highlight the commits I want and then use W c c to create a patch set. I submit them as attachments on one email usually (I use dired and gnus for that). I know threading (one patch per email) works better with tools like patchwork but I don’t wan

Re: Newbie tries to add a snippet to an origin

Hi divoplade, I’m glad you figured it out. I do want to say that most guix packages define the version number in the package definition. It would not be out of the ordinary to bump the version number in the scheme file. Good luck! John

Re: Newbie tries to add a snippet to an origin

Hi divoplade and guix, Since you are using the gnu build system, I suggest making your version number a variable in the makefile. The good part of using a make variable is that you can use $(shell git describe ...) normally and override it when building with guix. You can use the make or config

Re: Newbie tries to add a snippet to an origin

Hi divoplade, What build system are you using? How do you use your version number? Maybe there’s a simpler solution. - John

Re: Server mail setup?

Hi, I would love to see this too! Maybe an example system description or cookbook entry would be helpful when it gets figured out.

Re: BPF in linux-libre

m from the pieces in gnu/packages/linux.scm. That said, I think there are a few more missing pieces to get full functionality. Running the example bpftrace scripts gives errors like this: open(/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events): No such file or directory I think that means t

Re: BPF in linux-libre

just disables the parts that use libbfd. I have not used the package yet, does anyone want to test it out? Patches attached. Thanks! - John >From 6560dc2a5eedb3040bdd5fba8d8b6950b7a2b6d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Soo Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:53:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gnu:

Re: BPF in linux-libre

>From 6560dc2a5eedb3040bdd5fba8d8b6950b7a2b6d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Soo Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:53:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add libbpf. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (libbpf): New variable. --- gnu/packages/linux.scm | 46 ++ 1 file changed, 46 in

Re: BPF in linux-libre

Thanks Mathieu, I’ll take a look in a few weeks if you can’t figure it out. I’m probably going to take a quick break from bpf for a couple weeks as I have become extremely busy. Thanks for your help. Oh also I discussed issues I was having on the bpftrace irc and they pointed me to this pull r

Re: BPF in linux-libre

Hi Mathieu and Guix, I think I understand this error a little better now. It seems like zlib is not being resolved correctly. /gnu/store/rn75fm7adgx3pw5j8pg3bczfqq1y17lk-gcc-7.5.0/bin/c++ -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -rdynamic CMakeFiles/bpftrace.dir/attached_probe.cpp.o CMakeFiles/bpftrace.dir/bpffeatur

Re: BPF in linux-libre

' make: *** [Makefile:133: all] Error 2 Updated patches attached. Thanks! - John >From 1fd0e237ec93c953b49fcafa819dcfc1198b8644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Soo Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:53:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add libbpf. * gnu/packages/linux.scm

Re: error setting console font in system.scm

Hi Fulbert, Fulbert writes: > For this to work though, I just had to correct a typo : add a `comma` > (to _unquote_, if I'm not wrong) before the `(file-append …`. > So, for reference : > > ;; At the top of the file > (use-modules > ... > (ice-9 match)) > > ;; Replace %desktop-service

Re: BPF in linux-libre

Hi Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Now, it's just a matter of packaging "bcc" and "bpftrace" I guess. I was working on these yesterday. I keep getting errors that seem to indicate the linux-libre-headers we have might not be compatible: Here's my definition: (define-public bcc (let* ((v

Re: error setting console font in system.scm

Hello Fullbert, Fulbert writes: > Trying to change console font with the following in "services" section > of my system configuration file : > > > … > (services (append (list > … > (service console-font-service-type > `(("tty3" . ,(file-append font-terminus >

BPF in linux-libre

Hi Guix, I was in the mood to try some of these new bpf tools. Does the linux libre kernel support it? Thanks! John

Re: Guix on the MNT Reform

Hey there, I am definitely interested in the Reform. Can we see if we can work out something in advance? The ship date is tentatively in December 2020. - John

Re: GNU Guix maintainer collective update

to echo the sentiment that Guix is nice software but has even nicer leadership and community. Thank you so much for your service, Ricardo. I hope to see you around. > Let's also welcome Mathieu Othacehe in his new role! Congratulations, > Mathieu! :-) Congratulations Mathieu! Kindly, John Soo

Re: keyboard layout

Hi Adam and Pierre, There are several services which take a keyboard-layout. Also, there is a keyboard layout field in the operating-system that designates the keyboard layout done by loadkeys. I’m a keyboard enthusiast and the first-class support of bindings is one of my favorite things about

Re: how to run docker?

Hi Adam, You will also need the dockerd service in you system configuration, plus there is a known bug where a known module is not loaded by default. Should dockerd not start properly you will need to do the following: sudo modprobe overlay sudo herd restart dockerd Good luck, John

Re: a first question about parallel environments

Hi again, Seems my message was cut off. To the point: yes it is quite possible. For the short version and to get started check out the docs for the `guix environment` command. You will probably get what you want there. Also it does help to understand the idea of a functional package manager.

Re: a first question about parallel environments

Hi Ben, Welcome. > But can guix also be helpful in a case where you have multiple different > environments (I hope the term is correct) running in parallel? What is the > best way to achieve that? Creating multiple users? Using containers? Certainly! This is one of the main benefits of a fun

Re: Guix does not find packages

Hi T G-R, > I *still* think we should either do nothing, or call $PAGER > automatically when stdout is a TTY. I like the idea of using $PAGER. Makes sense to me. - John

Re: Guix does not find packages

Hi Zelphir, > `guix package -i font-fira-code font-fire-mono font-fire-sans` > > Gives: > > `guix package: error: font-fire-mono: unknown package` is font-fire-mono a typo? Should it be font-fira-mono? Hope that helps, John

Cuirass - check evaluation # from build details

Hi Guix, I’m curious about the commit that made a package fail to build. So I: - Searched the package - Followed the build id of the first broken build Now I’d like to see the evaluation and commit associated to the particular build. How do I do that, if at all? It would also help if I could f

Re: Guix as a package manager for Emacs

Hi everyone, Has anyone used the portable dumper yet? Could it be used to make a custom emacs package with the specified emacs packages dumped to a separate dump file? Just some thoughts I’ve had and tried recently but I don’t really know where the dumper is at these days. John

Re: GNOME: System sound suddenly stopped working and sound controls are disabled

Hi, >> On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:22 AM, sirgazil wrote: > I logged out, and then logged back in and sound was lost. I recently had to add this to modprobe.d/default.conf options snd_hda_intel index=1

Re: pulling cmake ExternalProject during guix builds

Hi Erik, > Can network access be provided to the build container? Or, is there perhaps > another low-effort workaround in guix? This is by design. Network access would make our builds nondeterministic. > As far as I understand, the only reasonable alternative to add the > dependencies as submodu

Re: Questions about Development Environments in Emacs (Leiningen, Intero)

Hi Pierre! > On Jan 3, 2020, at 12:24 AM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > I'm facing a similar issue at the moment. Does anyone have a good > answer to develop Haskell or Clojure with Emacs on Guix? I write a fair bit of Haskell. I find that I like to use cabal-install to develop, then make a .sc

Re: Help with Packaging and Git

I agree with Leo. My only addition is to make sure you use --localstatedir=/var (or wherever your local state directory is) when running ./configure

Re: [bug#38593] Remove invalid library directories from some haskell packages

Hi Ludo and guix, Let me explain my problem. Maybe there is some other explanation here and these patches aren’t necessary. When I have stylish-haskell installed I have troubles compiling anything using plain ghc. I want to use the ghc packages in the profile but for some reason ghc reports

Re: pre-inst-env: guile bad interpreter, guix-daemon libz not found

Ah! Sounds reasonable! Thanks a lot. - John

pre-inst-env: guile bad interpreter, guix-daemon libz not found

Hi Guix, I have troubles using pre-inst-env so I have never really used it but I really want it. Following the directions in the manual i: sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild Password: guix-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared ob

Re: Using a patch in a channel

Hi g_bor, Thanks! That helps a lot. - John

Using a patch in a channel

Hi guix! I have a problem with my channel. I have a few patches in my channel which work alright when building from the channel and when running guix package -u from the directory in which the channel lives. However i get the following when running guix package -u outside of the channel: guix p

Re: gfortran seems to require gcc-toolchain

Hi Brett, A touch off-topic. > That is what I do, like in my mlton package. Do you have urweb packaged by any chance, too? It would really save me the trouble! - John

Re: Thanks

I agree fully. Thank you to Ludo, Ricardo, and the newest maintainers. I appreciate the guix community a lot. - John

Re: New reconfigure, creating a file under /etc

Hi there, > (services >(append > (list (service gnome-desktop-service-type) > (service etc-service-type >(list `("os-release" ,(plain-file "os-release" > "PRETTY_NAME=Guix-System" > (set-xorg-configuration >(xorg-configuration > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout

Re: Non-standard builds, autoconf and gcc

Hi Todor, > I am trying to define a package that builds a source which has > > a non-standard build procedure. It's a mix of autotools packages and > something else. My first attempt was to use the trivial builder... What is the something else? If it the shape of the build follows the gnu ste

Re: Recipe for latest release of firefox?

Hi Christopher, > Does someone have a recipe, or channel, for the latest release of > Firefox? I’ve been working on it but I think it’s far from working. Check a few commits back at github.com/jsoo1/guix-channel Good luck, John

Re: How to permanently modify guix pull

Hi again, > Hey all, I am looking to try and modify where `guix pull` looks for the > channels.scm file. Sorry I misunderstood. I am not sure how to configure that. It may be looking for $XDG_HOME? - John

Re: How to permanently modify guix pull

Hi Brett, You can specify channels in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm. You specify a list of channels there as documented here: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html Good luck, John

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

Hi Tim, > Maybe we should rename GHC 8.6 to “ghc-next” until the build system uses it. Makes sense to me. I tried updating quickcheck for 8.6 and I think we have our work cutout for ourselves... hopefully we can get there soon though! - John

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

Hi Jesse, > Why did ghc-random and ghc-regex-compat only work with ghc 8.4.3? RIght now, most - if not all - ghc packages are built with ghc@8.4.3. GHC will check the version it was compiled with and refuse to compile if there is a mismatch between the object file and your project. Now that I say

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

Hi Jesse, > GHC_PACKAGE_PATH did > not change, even when I uninstalled > everything, so I suspected it was > linked to a login script. Ok yes. That is the state of affairs right now. The environment variables are sourced in the login profile. You can find the variables using guix package --se

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

Hi Jesse, > Can somebody help me out please? I can try! Can get the contents of $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH please? Guix uses this environment variable that is recognized by the ghc toolchain to tell ghc where packages are installed. What happens if you try to load your file in ghci instead of using ru

Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP

Hi TGR, > Heh… I freely admit to not having a clue what ‘Swiss-army knife’ really > means in this context. > > SICP is great! Haha, I think I meant from a computer science perspective. I suppose that probably does not cover what most people think of as a swiss-army-knife, though. Nonetheles

Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP

Hi Raghav! > I would like to learn programming starting with LISP Great! Lisp is probably the best language to start with! Lisp books also rank among the best introductory materials to programming. I highly recommend these two: - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (often calle

Re: CV Assistant

Hey Raghav! Thanks for your time and patience with Guix. I love to see you continue to use it! Do you think you could try packaging CV Assistant yourself? I suggest packaging it yourself for several reasons: - Guix is an incredibly hackable system. If nothing else, I enjoy working on and owning

Re: Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat

Hi Gary, I’m not so sure about icecat configuration but emacs does require configuration for Unicode fonts. The emacs wiki knows more than I do: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnicodeFonts Hope that helps, John

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

Thanks Jeff, Sounds good. Do you think this thread is effectively solved, then? You might consider opening a bug report for visudo. - John > On Jun 17, 2019, at 11:02 AM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:03:20AM -0700, John Soo wrote: >> Sorry this is so

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

Hi Jeff, Sorry this is so confusing. Let me know if I’m missed something since I’ve been half-following this thread. I think what you may want to do is use the sudoers-file field when specifying your operating system rather than using visudo to edit the file. This way you will have persistent a

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

Hi Pierre, I remember a thread some time ago regarding removing qtwebengine. I think it was because some chromium pieces came bundled together. Looks like someone has recently started re-adding it, with all guix dependencies: see bug#35866. Hope that helps, John > On May 30, 2019, at 12:39 A

Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

Hi Brian, Others may correct me if I’m wrong here, but during the build phase, network io is off limits. This is since there is not way to reliably guarantee the contents of things gotten over the network remain unchanged between builds, and so would break the immutability guarantees of the pac

Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm

Hi there, I do exactly what you said: $ emacs /path/to/my/config.scm $ sudo suix system reconfigure /path/to/my/config.scm No need to keep it in /etc. Hope that helps, John > On May 8, 2019, at 11:54 AM, sirgazil wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm reading the Guix manual, and I'm confused about the r

Re: Adding Services

Hi Amar, I recommend reading the manual sections on service definitions. I think that will clear up any confusion. For this configuration there are two suggestions I have: - closely check the way the `service` procedure is used. It takes the service type and a configuration like below. It is

Re: Declaring a Service

Hi RG, If you do not specify a value for the field, it will take the default. No need to specify a value if you mean to take the default for a field. - John > On May 4, 2019, at 8:49 AM, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > Hello Guix! > > To declare a service with default configuration in the syste

Re: Rust development tools

Hi! Thanks for your work on this. I’m looking forward to using alacrity and ripgrep, among other niceties the rust community has come up with. - John > On Apr 18, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Ivan Petkov wrote: > > Hi! > >> On Apr 17, 2019, at 7:26 PM, mikadoZero wrote: > > The rust integrations wit

Re: Way to synchronize files like Dropbox

Hi Adam, I’ve heard good things about syncthing. I do have to say I’ve not used it, myself. - John > On Apr 12, 2019, at 12:43 AM, Adam Mazurkiewicz wrote: > > What is the way to synchronize files with a remote storage like > Dropbox? I work in several places and I need to get the same docum

Re: xorg-configuration questions

Thanks! I’m all fixed. the extra config is broken but I think that’s an x configuration problem. - John > On Apr 9, 2019, at 8:04 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Hi John, > > John Soo skribis: > >> I love the idea of having one record for keyboard layout and I

xorg-configuration questions

Hey all, I love the idea of having one record for keyboard layout and I just reconfigured my system with the new configuration but my settings won't take. I've had issues with the old `extra-config` options in the past (nothing worked then including the cst-trackball from below). Admittedly, I am

Re: error building grub during update

I’m I’m sorry I assumed too much there. Guix pull will grab the newest changes if there are any which is exactly what I’m talking about. > On Mar 25, 2019, at 7:10 PM, nightowl wrote: > > How do you rebase to a newer commit? > > >> On 2019-03-24 11:47 pm, John Soo

Re: error building grub during update

Hi nightowl, I had this error recently too. I think rebasing to a newer commit fixed it for me. Since fixing the problem did involve reconfiguring again It could be something else though. maybe something nondeterministic in the test? John > On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:32 PM, nightowl wrote: > > I

Re: guix environment with channels?

Wait! I figured it out! I need to use list instead of quote! Oops! Thanks again! On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:23 PM John Soo wrote: > Thanks Ludo! > > Here's the error, environment file, and guix describe output: > https://paste.debian.net/1072838/ > > guix package -s ghc-ae

Re: guix environment with channels?

Thanks Ludo! Here's the error, environment file, and guix describe output: https://paste.debian.net/1072838/ guix package -s ghc-aeson-1.4.2.0 shows it is indeed a package in the system. Thanks again, John On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:11 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi John, >

Re: guix environment with channels?

> > > Message d'origine > On 5 mars 2019 à 08:20, John Soo < js...@asu.edu > a écrit : > > Hi guix, > > I was going to do some development recently and wanted to use some packages > from a channel. I have it listed as a channel under >

guix environment with channels?

Hi guix, I was going to do some development recently and wanted to use some packages from a channel. I have it listed as a channel under ~/.config/guix/channels.scm so I added some packages from the channel to a scheme file but guix environment -l my-file.scm told me there was no code for my ch

Re: User-Level services

g/shepherd/init.scm`. This all > can be done using guix daemon(declaratively). > > Though I am not sure how you can 'autostart' the service at boot time and > declaratively? > > Cheers > amar > >> On February 9, 2019 1:14:28 PM UTC, John Soo wrote: >

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