Re: A logo

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: Help welcome! Note that if you have commit access to the source code repo, you also have access to the web page repo (CVS) Seriously? I think I forgot how to use cvs 10 years ago... How about updating it to git? Also, I noticed that the

Re: Toward 0.2

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: • Xorg co. packaged (Andreas? :-)); Ok, I will have a look during the weekend. Andreas

Re: Toward 0.2

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: wrapProgram $out/bin/guile-snarf --prefix PATH : ${gawk}/bin How can I get the output of a package? With the recently-added ‘package-output’ (singular): --8---cut here---start-8--- scheme@(guile-user)

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: The built texinfo 5.0 packages contain a few uses of 'perl' that are not pointing to a specific version in /nix/store: Yes, I know, but since in ‘core-updates’ we’ll change ‘patch-shebang’ to handle /usr/bin/env specially, that’ll work well there. Ludo’.

Re: A logo

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: Help welcome! Note that if you have commit access to the source code repo, you also have access to the web page repo (CVS) Seriously? Yep. :-) That’s how gnu.org and nongnu.org web pages are

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: How exactly did you modify gcc-boot0? For the time being, I simply hard-coded two additional configure flags: diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index 5c39ec3..25e07bc 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: The file /nix/store/j2gf9gm512s8y64pgvw84258p3qsqfkq-glibc- bootstrap-0/include/gnu/stubs.h tries to include stubs-n64_hard.h (hard standing for hard float); but there is only a stubs-n32_hard.h in the directory. Ah I see, that’s because the

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-02-20 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Could you maybe provide some, Nikita? Sure. But what should I do? Should I adjust '%bootstrap-glibc' somehow? pgpNbt1ePcXrM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: The built texinfo 5.0 packages contain a few uses of 'perl' that are not pointing to a specific version in /nix/store: Yes, I know, but since in ‘core-updates’ we’ll change ‘patch-shebang’ to handle /usr/bin/env

Re: A logo

2013-02-20 Thread Jason Self
Can we ask the GNU webmasters? I think there’s one lurking here. Jason? :-) Ludo’. Yeah, I think it's better to the left as well. Assuming that's the decision... it's currently in an href tag and it doesn't really need to be. I'm also assuming that the right margin between the logo and

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2013 schrieb Nikita Karetnikov: Could you maybe provide some, Nikita? Sure. But what should I do? Should I adjust '%bootstrap-glibc' somehow? I think adding something like (arguments '(#:configure-flags (list CFLAGS=-march=mips64 -mabi=64))) to

Re: Porting to mips64el

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2013 schrieb Nikita Karetnikov: Could you maybe provide some, Nikita? Sure. But what should I do? Should I adjust '%bootstrap-glibc' somehow? I think adding something like (arguments '(#:configure-flags

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
carl hansen carlhansen1...@gmail.com skribis: FYI When I recently upgraded to texinfo-5, I had to make a soft link ln -s texi2any makeinfo The link was supposed to be made in the package, but it wasn't. It might be relevant to you. I just installed (from Guix) it and it did create the

GSoC?

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Should we submit a project for GSoC? There’s some info regarding GNU’s participation at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2013-02/threads.html. (I have zero experience with GSoC, though.) One project that would be suitable, because it’s orthogonal and challenging yet

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: carl hansen carlhansen1...@gmail.com skribis: FYI When I recently upgraded to texinfo-5, I had to make a soft link ln -s texi2any makeinfo The link was supposed to be made in the package, but it wasn't. It might be relevant to you. I just installed

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: The built texinfo 5.0 packages contain a few uses of 'perl' that are not pointing to a specific version in /nix/store: Yes, I know, but since in ‘core-updates’ we’ll change ‘patch-shebang’ to handle /usr/bin/env

Re: A logo

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Jason, Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net skribis: Assuming that's the decision... it's currently in an href tag and it doesn't really need to be. It used to(?) be a convention that the logo would point to a page containing info about it. Should we do it differently? I'm also assuming that

Re: Problem with texinfo 5.0 package

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: The built texinfo 5.0 packages contain a few uses of 'perl' that are not pointing to a specific version in /nix/store: Yes, I know, but since in ‘core-updates’ we’ll change

Re: A logo

2013-02-20 Thread Jason Self
Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote .. Should we do it differently? Ah, you're referring to the Use of Graphics section in the stylesheet [0]. That's actually referring to main graphics page [1] although this is fine too. Adding it to the GNU Art Gallery might be a good thing too. I'll make sure

New “guix pull” command

2013-02-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Commit f651b47 adds a “guix pull” command. It fetches a Guix source tarball, unpacks it, compiles Scheme code (so not the daemon), and changes ~/.config/guix/latest to point to it. The commit also changes the ‘guix’ command to put ~/.config/guix/latest at the front of the search path

Porting to anything

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Enge
The currently unsatisfying situation, according to HACKING, is that bootstrapping guix essentially starts by installing (and thus in the worst case porting) nix. I have spent the evening working on a shell script automating the compilation of the bootstrap binaries. Unsurprisingly, I end up