Re: What’s the weather like?

2017-07-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2017-07-25 12:26 +0200) wrote: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >>> > Now if one could pass a manifest or a system configuration to “guix >

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Efraim, Efraim Flashner skribis: > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl > modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of perl > packages that

Re: Trouble with circular module dependencies (Re: 01/02: gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.)

2017-07-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> FWIW, I would like to see us work to eliminate all cyclic module >>> dependencies in Guix, by splitting up our package modules as needed so >>> that they

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gzochi: Update to 0.11.1

2017-07-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Julian, Julian Graham skribis: > From 36b7b5e5c06cf1950ae37f6798dd2b6f9453eae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Julian Graham > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 23:35:55 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gzochi: Update to 0.11.1. > > *

Re: Should guix-emacs-autoload-packages use GUIX_ENVIRONMENT?

2017-07-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Alex Kost writes: > Kyle Meyer (2017-07-25 21:40 -0400) wrote: > >> Marius Bakke writes: >> >>> Wait, isn't this what --pure is for? I haven't followed the >>> discussion, but I would expect `guix environment` to *add* to my >>> current profile, and use

Re: What’s the weather like?

2017-07-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Alex Kost writes: > Hi, I've noticed that "guix weather" provides "--manifest" long option > but not "-m" short option (as "guix package" does). Would it be better > to add "-m" for consistency with "guix package"? Yes, that would be good. I forgot to provide it when I

Re: How to install a package in guile

2017-07-27 Thread Feng Shu
Alex Kost writes: > Feng Shu (2017-07-26 20:44 +0800) wrote: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > [...] >>> The rest (setting up the symlink) is a little less convenient though. >>> See (guix scripts package) or the equivalent Emacs-Guix code for how >>> this works.

Re: Open MPI keeps references to GCC, GFortran, etc.

2017-07-27 Thread Dave Love
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > Open MPI retains references to GCC, GFortran, etc., which significantly > increases its closure size. My query about cycles from separating the lib output was from looking at basically this. There should be a runtime package for

Re: Mes 0.9 released

2017-07-27 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.9, representing 107 > commits over 5 weeks. Mescc now compiles to a surprisingly readable > stage0 M1 macro assembler output format. Also, mescc can now compile a > modified TinyCC into a running [mostly segfaulting]

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better > > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl > > modules

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better > > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl > > modules

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Efraim Flashner
On July 27, 2017 9:11:57 PM GMT+03:00, Leo Famulari wrote: >On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Efraim, >> >> Efraim Flashner skribis: >> >> > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be >better

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Reverting is not an option at this point IMO. There are several Date::* > modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I > think we should rather find a way to fix them (I spent a bit of time on > it but

Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

2017-07-27 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
That's very good news indeed! :) I don't speak for the GNU Guix project itself, but here goes a description on how I ended up being a package maker for GNU Guix: For making package recipes, I mostly use knownledge about Scheme and basics of build systems (no need to know each of the various

Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

2017-07-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 06:07:09PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Reverting is not an option at this point IMO. There are several Date::* > > modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I > > think we