Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add laby.

[Andreas Enge]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:43:47PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ah yes it is inpired by the Nix package, it is store-specific.  Ocaml
> wants its "core" libraries all in the same prefix, store won't allow
> that.

Okay.

> When I hit this, I wondered if we have a way to import/convert packages
> and or what Guix's policy is on that.

There is a "guix import nix" command; I do not think it will go so far as
to also take care of patches, but it will create a template for a scheme
object from nixpkgs.

"git am" complained about whitespace issues with tabs, but I suppose these
are okay in make files :-)

> +    (inputs
> +     `(("camlp4" ,camlp4)
> +       ("m4" ,m4)
> +       ("ocaml" ,ocaml)))

I think all of these should be native-inputs; the first two are not referenced
in the result ("guix gc --references /gnu/store/..."), and ocaml is definitely
needed during compile time. I moved them and pushed the patch.

Thank you very much for your patience!

Andreas