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bug#41387: "Building from Git" on foreign distro starting with NO guix?
From: |
Bengt Richter |
Subject: |
bug#41387: "Building from Git" on foreign distro starting with NO guix? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 May 2020 05:07:42 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hi,
Playing with guix-install.sh, which is binary installation,
I got into reading a bit at [1], and decided I'd like to try it.
[1]
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html#Building-from-Git
Is there anyone here who has succeeded installing guix following the
directions at "14.1 Building from Git" on a "foreign distro"
WITH NO TRACE OF GUIX on it to start?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I read,
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14.1 Building from Git
If you want to hack Guix itself, it is recommended to use the latest version
from the Git repository:
git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
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Great, my foreign /usr/bin/git cloned that handily (that was the intent right?)
Onwards,
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How do you ensure that you obtained a genuine copy of the repository? Guix
itself provides a tool to authenticate your checkout, but you must first make
sure this tool is genuine in order to “bootstrap” the trust chain. To do that,
run:
git verify-commit `git log --format=%H build-aux/git-authenticate.scm`
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Guix itself? How is that meant? Really looks like my git again, albeit showing
info probably from guix :)
Anyway, it worked. At least I counted 19 or so repeat outputs of this:
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gpg: Signature made Fri 27 Dec 2019 01:52:49 PM CET
gpg: using RSA key 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
gpg: Good signature from "Ludovic Court\u00e8s <address@hidden>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Ludovic Court\u00e8s <address@hidden>" [unknown]
gpg: aka "Ludovic Court\u00e8s (Inria) <address@hidden>"
[unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5
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I don't know what in the repo was signed, but I recognize the name ;-)
Ok, next step. No brick wall yet ;-)
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>From there on, you can authenticate all the commits included in your checkout
>by running:
make authenticate
The first run takes a couple of minutes, but subsequent runs are faster.
Note: You are advised to run make authenticate after every git pull
invocation. This ensures you keep receiving valid changes to the repository
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First bump, misunderstood that it wasn't time *right now* to do "make
authenticate":
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[21:17 ~/wb/guix110git/guix]$ make authenticate
make: *** No rule to make target 'authenticate'. Stop.
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After being distracted and feeling a bit teased reading about what I could do
easily
if I already had guix installed I overlooked the "(see Requirements)" and
just checked on the list following. (Gettext needed unmentioned Autopoint, BTW,
but NBD :)
on to ./bootstrap ... mostly ok
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If you are unable to use Guix when building Guix from a checkout, the following
are the required packages in addition to those mentioned in the installation
instructions (see Requirements).
GNU Autoconf;
GNU Automake;
GNU Gettext;
GNU Texinfo;
Graphviz;
GNU Help2man (optional).
On Guix, extra dependencies can be added by instead running guix environment
with --ad-hoc:
guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace
Run ./bootstrap to generate the build system infrastructure using Autoconf and
Automake. If you get an error like this one:
configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES
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Well, didn't get that one, but did get
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configure.ac:23: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and its
use is discouraged.
configure.ac:23: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro
instead,
configure.ac:23: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your
Makefile.am files.
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and
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Makefile.am:649: warning: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but 'po' not in SUBDIRS
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So, onwards again :)
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Then, run ./configure as usual. Make sure to pass --localstatedir=directory
where directory is the localstatedir value used by your current installation
(see The Store, for information about this). We recommend to use the value
/var.
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My "current installation" ?? I don't have one yet ;-(
Ok, run ./configure in any case:
I decided to make a test directory for --prefix
Fumbled the absolute directory, but then it ran ...
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[~/wb/guix110git/guix]$ mkdir -p mybuild/var
[~/wb/guix110git/guix]$ ./configure --prefix=./mybuild
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: ./mybuild
[~/wb/guix110git/guix]$ ./configure --prefix=$(realpath ./mybuild)
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
...
...
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
configure: checking for guile 3.0
configure: checking for guile 2.2
configure: found guile 2.2
checking for guile-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-2.2
checking for Guile version >= 2.2... 2.2.4
checking for guild-2.2... /usr/bin/guild-2.2
checking for guile-config-2.2... /usr/bin/guile-config-2.2
checking for GUILE... yes
checking if (gnutls) is available... no
configure: error: The Guile bindings of GnuTLS are missing; please install them.
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Well, it was looking for guile 3.0 and my foreign distro only has 2.2.4
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guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.4
Packaged by Debian (2.2.4-deb+1-2)
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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which it seemed ok with, but I don't seem to be able get my distro's GnuTLS
hooked up with this installation procedure, and suspect a GnuTLS/Guile version
mismatch problem or such, but then I ran out of enthusiasm :)
Debian's packages on my system matching tls are:
[~/bs]$ dpkg -l '*tls*'
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=======================-================-============-=============================================================
un exim-tls <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii gnutls-bin 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 amd64 GNU TLS library -
commandline utilities
ii gnutls-doc 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 all GNU TLS library -
documentation and examples
ii libcurl3-gnutls:amd64 7.64.0-4+deb10u1 amd64 easy-to-use
client-side URL transfer library (GnuTLS flavour)
un libcurl4-gnutls-dev <none> <none> (no description
available)
ii libgnutls-dane0:amd64 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 amd64 GNU TLS library -
DANE security support
ii libgnutls30:amd64 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 amd64 GNU TLS library -
main runtime library
ii libneon27-gnutls:amd64 0.30.2-3 amd64 HTTP and WebDAV
client library (GnuTLS enabled)
ii libxmlsec1-gnutls:amd64 1.2.27-2 amd64 Gnutls engine for the
XML security library
un rsyslog-gnutls <none> <none> (no description
available)
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I thought maybe I could cheat and find a path into the cloned repo, since
all the magic has to be there somehow, but that way seems pretty kludgey.
Any help past this GnuTLS obstacle is welcome!
BTW, could I check out at a commit prior to the guile3 introduction
so that my distro might have a matching GnuTLS for that?
If so, which commit would be best?
In the meanwhile, back to hacking guix-install.sh :)
Thanks for reading.
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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