Re: Trying to define a package

[Thomas Sigurdsen]

Haha, I see that I added bash because I misread the error and someone
mentioned bash was needed.

Bash is not needed. You can delete the input for bash both the use-module and
the native-input bit. Be careful of matching parenthesis.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:27:16 +0200
Thomas Sigurdsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Arnaud.
> 
> Had a look at your package, it does not have the configure script where
> build-system gnu is expecting. I couldn't see it anywhere else either.
> 
> I've made a few changes that I attached. With this you can put the file in a
> directory that you append to your $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH and then just run 'guix
> build freefilesync'.
> 
> I see the License file has three other licenses in addition to GPL3. But the
> names look like free software too (though I'm not a lawyer). No idea how we
> handle cases like that.
> 
> Also, the rest of the code tree looks very non-standard as far as the tools
> I'm used go... Which is probably why you are having trouble building it.
> 
> Hope that helps a little.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:14:34 +0200
> Arnaud B <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Well I'm happy to report that thanks to your advice I made some progress.
> > Using the scm file attached and the command :
> > *guix build -L /home/arnaud/guix_packages/gnu/packages/ -K -f
> > freefilesync.scm*
> > the build process starts as it should, the zip file is downloaded, checked
> > and unziped as needed, and the cpp files compile normally.
> > It stops at the configure script stage, apparently not finding the
> > configure command.
> > H
> > ​ere is the relevant part :
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> > *phase `unpack' succeeded after 0.3 secondsstarting phase
> > `patch-usr-bin-file'phase `patch-usr-bin-file' succeeded after 0.0
> > secondsstarting phase `patch-source-shebangs'phase `patch-source-shebangs'
> > succeeded after 0.2 secondsstarting phase `configure'source directory:
> > "/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-0/source" (relative from build:
> > ".")build directory:
> > "/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-0/source"configure flags:
> > ("CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash"
> > "SHELL=/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash"
> > "--prefix=/gnu/store/v07x6jfph9yy7bf54ibdb9z08snjn6lh-freefilesync-9.9"
> > "--enable-fast-install"
> > "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
> > /gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash:
> > ./configure: No such file or
> > directory                                              phase `configure'
> > failed after 0.0 secondsnote: keeping build directory
> > `/tmp/guix-build-freefilesync-9.9.drv-1'builder for
> > `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv' failed
> > with exit code 1@ build-failed
> > /gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv - 1
> > builder for
> > `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv' failed
> > with exit code 1                     guix build: error: build failed:
> > build of
> > `/gnu/store/r13m30fdxvxindynh4161ca498lj3y09-freefilesync-9.9.drv' failed*
> > This is surprising to me as, according to the manual
> > <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Packages.html>,
> > configure is part of the usual set of tools found in the gnu build system.
> > Let met quote :
> > *"The (...) gnu-build-system represents the familiar GNU Build System,
> > where packages may be configured, built, and installed with the usual
> > ./configure && make && make check && make install command sequence."*
> > I checked that bash, bash-minimal, bash-completion are all found in the
> > store (actually in 3 differents versions after guix puil I guess).
> > 
> > So again I rely on your knowledge, hoping to get through eventually.
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance
> > 
> > Arnaud
> > 
> > PS : I reworded the package name and description as per the guidelines.
> > 
> > 
> > 2018-04-02 21:53 GMT+02:00 Arnaud B <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > > ​Hello Pierre and Oleg
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for the detailed and helpful answers, I will do accordingly
> > > tomorrow night after work and report.
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >
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