Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add fpc. (version 2)

2017-06-08 Thread Kei Kebreau
Marius Bakke writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Just to piggy-back on this discussion, I'm attempting to package >> "Hedgewars" and needed this patch to get fpc working properly: > > Oops, found one more patch in that old branch. @Kei, feel free to

Re: [PATCH] git-download: Speed up 'git-predicate'.

2017-06-08 Thread Christopher Baines
On 07/06/17 13:52, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> Adjust 'git-predicate' to use data structures that perform better when used >> with git repositories with a large number of files. >> >> Previously when matching either a regular file or directory,

Re: [PATCH] Prototype register-path

2017-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi reepca, Caleb Ristvedt skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> “make check TESTS=tests/store.scm” passes now with the fixes you posted >> today (‘getenv’ & co.) > > I end up with 2 failed tests, but neither of them are the register-path > one.

Re: Cross-compilation to GNU/Hurd broken on core-updates

2017-06-08 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hey Ludo, Locally on the latest core-updates 70eea6ea14590a5a13656148915bd62f5fecf5f7 running `./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs --fallback' builds successfully. 10:27:47 manolis@aeneas ~/repos/guix [env]$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu

Re: Serial line lock directory

2017-06-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:32:09 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Probably it checks whether $localstatedir exist, and it doesn’t exist in > the build environment. So you’ll have to somehow tweak ‘configure’ into > skipping that test, perhaps by setting the relevant ‘ac_cv_’

Help with hplip-qt5

2017-06-08 Thread ng0
Adjusting priorities is a nice thing to do. This package is a border case… It fits into the scope of my system work and can not be ignored or handed off. I don't find the previous conversations on this, it must have been with a different thread subject. My intention is to add the qt UI of hplip.

Re: Packaging IceCat extensions with Guix

2017-06-08 Thread ng0
What happened to this idea? Is anyone working on it or should I try to find someone who wants to work on it? It's rather simple from my perspective. ng0 transcribed 8.4K bytes: > ng0 writes: > > > Marius Bakke writes: > > > >> Hi Guix, > >> > >> I read

Re: Cross-compilation to MinGW broken on core-updates

2017-06-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> Hmm. Did bash successfully cross build to i686-w64–mingw32 before? > > Good question, I’m not sure! I thought it was a prerequisite for other > things, but maybe not. Yeah, then it needs to be ported. Bash is probably not trivial. I only looked at hello, guile and

Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot

2017-06-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > One way to work around the problem is to use PRoot, a ptrace(2)-based > tool to virtualize the file system². With the ‘proot-static’ package I > just pushed, one can run, say, hwloc, on such a hostile machine by > sending locally-created

Re: What’s next?

2017-06-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Chris Marusich writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari writes: >>> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`! >>> >>> I use it too. Statements by others in this thread that

Re: Any objections to removing linux-libre@4.1?

2017-06-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mark H Weaver writes: > Does anyone here still need linux-libre@4.1 in Guix? If not, I'd like > to remove it. Is this not the only version of Linux libre that does not expose the system clock bug Libreboot users suffer from? I’m still using 4.1 on one of my machines for that

Re: Using CHILD_SUBREAPER in GNU Shepherd

2017-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! sba...@catern.com skribis: > What this boils down to is allowing process supervisors to be much more > reliable, even when not running as init, because they can track not just > their children, but their children's children, and in general all > transitive children. I'd like to add it to

Re: Cross-compilation to MinGW broken on core-updates

2017-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Hi Ludo & all! > >> Bash fails to cross-build for i686-w64–mingw32 on ‘core-updates’: > >> Ideas? > > Hmm. Did bash successfully cross build to i686-w64–mingw32 before? Good question, I’m not sure! I thought it was a

Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image

2017-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:31:36 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >> Honestly, I was under the assumptions that DCE UUIDs was all that >> mattered: it works for ext2 and btrfs, right? I would think that people >> would

Re: Unexpected behaviour of guix environment --container

2017-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I try debugging some package test-cases. The test-suite runs (but fails) > when using "guix build". Now I want to get an environment matching the > build container (including the already build package). For this I run e.g. > >