Wow, Björn, you were so fast again :) I just got around this right now.
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 18., Cs, 8:54): > > Hi Laura, > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:36:02 -0300 > Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html#Contributing > > I have already read this chapter, but I am messed up. I have already > > cloned from git, but I have some questions: > > 1) Do I need to install everything from the git repo in my distro? > > I'm not sure if I understand you right. You ask if you "need to install > everything from the git in my distro?". I don't get that. Let me tell > what I mean: > > You cloned that one, right? > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > > That is the source code of Guix. I.e. when you do a > > guix package -i hello > > then you use the binary "guix" command that you installed in the > beginning. And the repository you cloned is just the source code, there > is nothing in there that you need to install. > > > Maybe you ment the list of software that is written here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Building-from-Git > > When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are required in > addition to those mentioned in the installation instructions (see > Requirements). > > GNU Autoconf; > GNU Automake; > GNU Gettext; > GNU Texinfo; > Graphviz; > GNU Help2man (optional). > > So, yeah. In order to compile Guix from source, you need all these. > > But wait, read the next sentence. You have guix already installed. Guix > provides a VERY nice command, `guix envirionment <PACKAGE>`. With that, > Guix prepares an "environment" that can be directly used to build > <PACKAGE>. > > So, if you enter: > > guix environment guix > > then Guix will know best what software in which version it needs in > order to build guix (in this case, itself, don't get trapped by that > self-circularity :-)) > > When you are in, you can just follow the next steps described: > > ./bootstrap > ./configure --localstatedir=/var > make > > When that went all through well, you can install the "hello" > application: > > ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello > > The "./pre-inst-env" tells that you want to use the guix command that > you just built, not the one that is somewhere else on your path. > > Now you just go on: > > > 2) How do I convert my template into a package? I can't figure out > > that part. > > You don't have to CONVERT. That template IS a package: > > > > (define-public r-aspi > > > (package > > > (name "r-aspi") > > What you do is you just open the file gnu/packages/r.scm and add your > "(define... " at the end. > > Ehh, wait, there is no file r.scm. It is either cran.scm or > bioinformatics.scm. > > Then you are done. Try to build it: > > ./pre-inst-env guix build r-aspi > > Björn > > > Thank you! g_bor
