Hi Brett,
> I am wondering about a specific dilemma for developers. I know that I
> can run a specific guix environment container of sorts to hack on
> package code, but I am curious about how I could do about using that
> locally checked out code to build it and run it.
You can generate a tarball (e.g. with “make dist”) and then run
guix build the-package \
--with-source=the-tarball.tar.gz
“guix build” returns the store path to the newly built item. It won’t
result in a new generation of your profile. You can usually run the
software using the full store path.
--
Ricardo
