Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

[Chris Marusich]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> With the ‘#:recursive?’ keyword option set to #t, ‘local-file’ should
>> work for directories.
>
> Indeed, thanks for pointing out.
>
> I tried and it failed with
>
>       starting phase `configure'
>       source directory: "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-dev-26.0.91.drv-0/source" 
> (relative from build: ".")
>       build directory: "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-dev-26.0.91.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/iaipasvi8dys79ms3y0axvwwdfnd31dq-emacs-dev-26.0.91"
> "--enable-fast-install" "--build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
>       configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-fast-install
>       ./configure: line 3350: config.log: Permission denied
>       ./configure: line 3360: config.log: Permission denied
>       phase `configure' failed after 0.1 seconds
>
> I inspected the content of
> "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-dev-26.0.91.drv-0/source": many files are
> missing, among others "configure".
>
> I am very confused...

Can you share the package definition?

-- 
Chris

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