Hi guix help, 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 new binary. Maybe install it globally later, but I'm not there yet. I cloned the diffutils repo from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/diffutils.git, and in that directory ran `guix shell git vim nnn -D diffutils` (but I think it's just the -D diffutils I'm having trouble with). I believe that the -D/--development argument should produce a shell within which I can build `diff`. The README says that the first step is to run `./bootstrap`, but that fails because of several missing packages. I don't have the full list right now, but I think autoconf was one, and texi2pdf was another.
The packaging for diffutils clearly works (since I can install it), so I wonder if it does something different from what I'm attempting? I couldn't find the scheme file that defines diffutils, but I'm not sure I'd be able to read it anyway (I'm really trying out guix for the first time). Thanks for reading, please let me know if I can provide more info. Dan
