Re: Guix package steps

[Mark H Weaver]

Daniel Pimentel <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2015-06-17 00:57, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Daniel Pimentel <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I tried create new packages (ipcalc, nmap, xfburn and others) but
>>> without success.
>>>
>>> My steps (based on talk GNU Guix packaging by Andreas Enge):
>>> 0. Git clone guix repository by savannah;
>>> 1. Copy gnu/package/indent.scm to mypackage.scm in this same folder;
>>> 2. Add module to gnu-system.am
>>> 3. Download mypackage;
>>> 4. Edit mypackage.scm and add hash, license and other information;
>>> 5. ./pre-inst-env guix build mypackage -K
>>> 6. Erro: bash: ./pre-inst-env: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> But there is pre-inst-env.in only. The script pre-inst-env not exist
>>> in repository. So where is pre-inst-env?
>>
>> You have to build guix before you can run it.  See
>> doc/contributing.texi, especially the "Building from Git" section.
>> Also, you should pass --localstatedir=/var to ./configure.
>>
>>      Mark
>
> I tried again, follow README file but there's a error (dot command?)
> when I run "make":
>
> /bin/sh /home/dani/Desktop/development/git/guix/build-aux/missing dot
> -Tpng -Gratio=.9 -Gnodesep=.005 -Granksep=.00005 -Nfontsize=9
> -Nheight=.1 -Nwidth=.1 < "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.dot" >
> "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png.tmp"
> /home/dani/Desktop/development/git/guix/build-aux/missing: line 81:
> dot: command not found

'dot' is part of the graphviz package, which is listed as a required
package in the "Building from Git" section that I cited above.

      Mark