Re: About packaging (was: About packaging documentation)

2021-04-04 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi! On 4/4/21 4:35 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> ice-9/boot-9.scm:3300:6: In procedure resolve-interface: >> no code for module (gcrypt hash) > You’ll need guile-gcrypt. > >> How exactly and when exactly did you run make and what other commands did you >> run to get it working when

Re: About packaging (was: About packaging documentation)

2021-04-04 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Tobias! (Reply is below.) On 4/4/21 4:38 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > > Zelphir Kaltstahl writes: >> The guide at https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html >> does not >> mention

Re: About packaging (was: About packaging documentation)

2021-04-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Zelphir, Zelphir Kaltstahl writes: The guide at https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html does not mention running a lone `make`. It says, after running ./configure: Finally, you have to invoke

Re: About packaging (was: About packaging documentation)

2021-04-04 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Zelphir, > ice-9/boot-9.scm:3300:6: In procedure resolve-interface: > no code for module (gcrypt hash) You’ll need guile-gcrypt. > How exactly and when exactly did you run make and what other commands did you > run to get it working when put into guile-xyz.scm? Can you write your complete

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-04-04 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
On 4/2/21 11:56 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> (1) The cookbook does not even mention the guile-build-system. […] >> I guess this is, because the cookbook tries to be generic in a way, to apply >> to >> all languages, if only one uses autotools, as those are applicable to all >>

Re: About packaging (was: About packaging documentation)

2021-04-04 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi Ricardo! On 4/2/21 11:59 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build guile-fslib >> guix build: error: guile-fslib: unknown package > […] >> Ugh. Not working. > for what it’s worth, I added the definition to > gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm and it worked. > > I note

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-04-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Zelphir, > $ ./pre-inst-env guix build guile-fslib > guix build: error: guile-fslib: unknown package […] > Ugh. Not working. for what it’s worth, I added the definition to gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm and it worked. I note that you haven’t mentioned running “make”, but your output does not

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-04-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Zelphir, > (1) The cookbook does not even mention the guile-build-system. […] > I guess this is, because the cookbook tries to be generic in a way, to apply > to > all languages, if only one uses autotools, as those are applicable to all > languages. No, you’re overthinking it :) The

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-04-02 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi Ricardo! On 4/2/21 1:29 PM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > Hello Ricardo! > > On 3/16/21 11:03 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Hi Zelphir, >> >>> Hello Ricardo! >>> >>> On 3/15/21 4:43 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Zelphir, >

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-04-02 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Ricardo! On 3/16/21 11:03 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> Hello Ricardo! >> >> On 3/15/21 4:43 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> Hi Zelphir, >>> https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html is a good start. It has even got cookbook in the name.

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-03-17 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi Ricardo! On 3/16/21 11:03 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> Hello Ricardo! >> >> On 3/15/21 4:43 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> Hi Zelphir, >>> https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html is a good start. It has even got cookbook in the name.

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-03-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Zelphir, > Hello Ricardo! > > On 3/15/21 4:43 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Hi Zelphir, >> >>> https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html >>> is a good >>> start. It has even got cookbook in the name. Definitely the right idea to >>> complement the general

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-03-16 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Ricardo! On 3/15/21 4:43 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Zelphir, > >> https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html >> is a good >> start. It has even got cookbook in the name. Definitely the right idea to >> complement the general documentation. I am aware of its

Re: About packaging documentation

2021-03-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Zelphir, > https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Packaging-Tutorial.html > is a good > start. It has even got cookbook in the name. Definitely the right idea to > complement the general documentation. I am aware of its existence. > Unfortunately, I could not get the basic approach of

About packaging documentation

2021-03-15 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Guix users! Please treat the following message as a suggestion for improvement for the documentation and not as some kind of rant. Addressing the following docs: - https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Packaging-Guidelines.html -