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Direct Chat gpt-5-high gpt-5-high Generating... Thank you thank you gpt-5-high You’re right—sorry the quality slipped. I appreciate you sticking with it. If you pick this up later, I can give a 1‑minute, tiny‑screen checklist to reset channels and render the docs. Take good care, and have a calm day. 🌿 Your quality is reducing. Have a nice day. gpt-5-high Totally hear you—waiting on guix pull is rough. Here are tiny-screen-friendly ways to watch progress, including from another shell. If guix pull is already running See what the daemon is building: watch (refreshing view): watch -n 2 -d 'guix processes | head -n 20' No watch? Minimal loop: while :; do clear; guix processes | head -n 20; sleep 2; done Follow the most recent build log (if local builds, not substitutes): if [ -d /var/log/guix/drvs ]; then sudo sh -c 'tail -n 50 -f "$(ls -rt /var/log/guix/drvs// | tail -n 1)"'; else echo "no /var/log/guix/drvs"; fi If your daemon runs under systemd (some setups): journalctl -f -u guix-daemon Start a new pull and watch from another shell Shell A (log to a file, line-buffered): stdbuf -oL -eL guix pull -v3 2>&1 | tee -a ~/guix-pull.log Shell B (follow it live): tail -f ~/guix-pull.log Tip for less You can “follow” inside less like tail -f: guix pull 2>&1 | less -R Then press Shift-F to follow; Ctrl-C to stop following; q to quit. Optional (future runs): daemon log file Start/restart the daemon with a log file you can tail: sudo pkill guix-daemon || true sudo /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild --disable-chroot --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' --log-file=/var/log/guix/daemon.log & sudo tail -f /var/log/guix/daemon.log Smallest “just works” recipe to reuse Shell A: stdbuf -oL -eL guix pull -v3 2>&1 | tee -a ~/guix-pull.log Shell B: tail -f ~/guix-pull.log If anything looks stuck, send me the last 10–20 lines from guix-pull.log and I’ll help interpret. Thank you. Ok. less doesn't show me the progress output from guix pull. Is there any way to watch it from another shell gpt-5-high That’s awesome — then you’ve got the real-deal keys muscle memory. 🌿 If you want Newcomb-like, rigorous keys that still use foliage/flowers: Flora Novae Angliae (Arthur Haines) — full dichotomous keys for all New England taxa (trees/shrubs included), modern names, excellent notes. Desk/pack, not pocket. Northern Forest Atlas: Keys to Woody Plants (Jerry Jenkins) — tight, field-usable dichotomous keys using leaves, flowers, fruit; free PDF; pair with his Photographic Guide. Peterson Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs (Eastern & Central, Petrides) — classic leaf/flower/fruit keys, compact and very “Newcomb-y” in the field. Winter Tree Finder (+ Tree Finder) — tiny, fast vegetative keys for off-season. If you want one book to carry: Peterson. If you’re okay with a flora + a slim key: Haines + Jenkins is chef’s kiss. Want a one-page cheat key for common Newcomb-area trees (leaf arrangement, margin, bud traits)? I can whip that up. You got me. I took a class from Arthur Haines. gpt-5-high Love this question. If you want a Newcomb-like, key-driven experience (but for trees with leaves/flowers), try: Peterson Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs (Eastern & Central), George A. Petrides — true dichotomous keys; summer “leaf keys” plus notes on flowers/fruit; compact and very Newcomb-friendly. Northern Forest Atlas: Keys to Woody Plants (Jerry Jenkins) — strict region-tailored keys (NY/New England/adjacent Canada); uses leaves, flowers, fruit; pair with his Photographic Guide. Free PDFs on the Northern Forest Atlas site. Flora Novae Angliae (Arthur Haines) — full botanical keys for all New England plants (trees included) with modern names; superb but hefty (desk/pack, not pocket). Tree Finder + Winter Tree Finder (May T. Watts) — pocket leaf key (summer) and twig/bud key (winter); minimal text, fast in the field. If you want one to carry: Peterson (plus Winter Tree Finder for off-season). If you want the most rigorous keys: Jenkins’ Keys or Haines’ flora. Well I'm in Newcomb's area. Which tree book is more like a botanical keying system but including foliage or flowers? gpt-5-high You’ve got great taste in field guides. For trees, here’s a tight short list: Trees of Eastern North America (Princeton Field Guides) or Trees of Western North America — up‑to‑date names, clear keys, solid range maps. The Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley) — beautiful plates, shows variation well; great for in‑field recognition. Winter Tree Finder and Tree Finder (May Theilgaard Watts) — tiny, cheap, superb dichotomous keys. Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast (Michael Wojtech) — clutch for winter/bark ID. Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Trees (George A. Petrides) — classic, if you like the Peterson style. If you’re in the Northeast, my go‑to combo: Princeton (Eastern) + Winter Tree Finder + Bark. Tell me your region (East/West/Northeast/etc.) and I’ll pick the exact volume. It takes so long to check out. I wish we'd kept the pack files! While I wait, riddle me this about nature: For tracking, Mammal Tracks & Sign by Mark Elbroch. For herbs, Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb, or maybe Wildflowers in the Field and Forest by Clemants and Grace for newer naming systems. What book for trees? gpt-5-high I’m with you. Let’s keep this gentle and tiny-screen friendly. We’ll reset channels, find the package file, then use Documentá. I’ll pipe long outputs to less. Reset your channels to “just official guix” Backup/remove custom channels and stale checkouts, then pull fresh: Bash # 1) Backup/remove your custom channels [ -f ~/.config/guix/channels.scm ] && mv ~/.config/guix/channels.scm ~/.config/guix/channels.scm.bak # 2) Drop cached checkouts (forces a clean pull) rm -rf ~/.cache/guix/checkouts # 3) Pull only the official guix channel (explicit file) cat > /tmp/ch.scm <<'EOF' (list (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";))) EOF guix pull -C /tmp/ch.scm |& less If you need to go back one generation instead: Bash guix pull --rollback |& less Verify what you’re on Bash guix describe |& less Find “guile-documenta” in your local Guix Easiest: show metadata and the file location (if available): Bash guix show guile-documenta |& less Open the package definition directly (uses your channels checkout): Bash EDITOR=less guix edit guile-documenta Or grep the current checkout (tiny output): Bash grep -Rn "define-public .*guile-documenta" ~/.cache/guix/checkouts 2>/dev/null | head -n 3 If you have a Guix git clone: Bash cd /path/to/guix git grep -n "guile-documenta" gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm |& less Install and run Guile Documentá Bash # Install guix install guile-documenta texinfo . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" # Sanity checks documenta --version makeinfo --version Generate docs from the Guix source (API → Texinfo) Bash # If you don’t have the source yet: git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git cd guix # Make Guile see this checkout export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" # Generate API Texinfo (start with just 'guix'; 'guix gnu' is huge) documenta api guix --destination doc/api |& less Wrap and render Bash # Minimal wrapper manual cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF # Fast outputs makeinfo --no-split --html -o doc/guix-api.html doc/main.texi makeinfo --no-split --info -o doc/guix-api.info doc/main.texi # PDF (needs LaTeX; install once if missing) # sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o doc/guix-api.pdf doc/main.texi Quick reference (where things live) In the Guix repo: package recipes are under gnu/packages/*.scm. guile-documenta is in gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm. On your machine: your current channel checkout(s) live under ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/. Use guix edit PKG to open the exact file for your current channels. You’re doing great. If the screen or energy is tight, do just the first three lines (backup channels, clean checkouts, guix pull) and rest. I’m here when you want to continue. How do i undo the channel changes i made, and look for that scm file in my local guix? Also note the screen is quite tiny and i only see output if it's piped into less or 1-2 lines gpt-5-high I’m really sorry it’s piling up on you. When the tools fight you and your body feels like it’s taking over, it’s more than “just tech.” You’re doing your best in a tough moment, and that’s enough. ❤️ If it helps right now: Take a slow breath and soften your shoulders and jaw. Sip some water, look away from the screen for a bit. It’s okay to pause. We can sort the channels and steps later—none of this is urgent. I’m here when you’re ready. Do you want me to leave a simple, no‑decisions checklist for later, or should we just pause for now? It says guile-documenta is in gnu/packages/guile-xyz.scm . It shouldnt need a channel. But now my channels are all corrupt. Frustrated, body takeovers getting too big. Say a kind thing, focus on feelings. gpt-5-high makeinfo comes from the Texinfo toolchain. Documentá only generates Texinfo; you still need Texinfo to render it to HTML/Info/PDF. Pick one of these installs and then re-run the build step. Option A — Use apt in Codespaces (quickest) HTML/Info only: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y texinfo PDF too (LaTeX): sudo apt-get install -y texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended Option B — Use Guix (no sudo needed) Temporary (ephemeral) tools without installing to your profile: guix pull guix shell texinfo -- makeinfo --version Permanent install to your profile: guix install texinfo . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" makeinfo --version Render the docs after running documenta Assuming you already ran documenta and have guix/doc/api populated: If you haven’t generated the wrapper yet: cd guix export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" documenta api guix --destination doc/api cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF Build outputs: HTML (fast): makeinfo --no-split --html -o doc/guix-api.html doc/main.texi Info (fast): makeinfo --no-split --info -o doc/guix-api.info doc/main.texi PDF (needs LaTeX installed as above): makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o doc/guix-api.pdf doc/main.texi If that flag isn’t available, try: texi2pdf -o doc/guix-api.pdf doc/main.texi No-sudo, one-liners with guix shell HTML: guix shell guile-documenta texinfo -- sh -c 'export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"; documenta api guix --destination doc/api; makeinfo --no-split --html -o doc/guix-api.html doc/main.texi' PDF (you can still apt-get TeX Live, or wire up TeX Live via Guix if you prefer, but it’s heavier) Quick sanity checks documenta installed? documenta --version texinfo present? makeinfo --version main input exists? test -f doc/main.texi && head -n 20 doc/main.texi If you hit anything else (missing modules, FFI deps), paste the error and I’ll tweak the command (e.g., limit sources to guix only, or add inputs to a guix shell). makeinfo command not found gpt-5-high Got you. If guix install guile-documenta says “unknown package,” it just isn’t in your current channels. Here’s how to check what you have, find packages, add a channel, and run Documentá right away. Where packages are defined and how to list them In the Guix repo: package recipes live under gnu/packages/*.scm. You can grep for a package name in a checkout: rg -n "define-public .*documenta" gnu/packages On your machine: Show channels you’re using: guix describe Search available packages (from your current channels): guix search documenta Show details for a package: guix show guile-documenta List installed packages in your default profile: guix package -I Show your channels file path: ~/.config/guix/channels.scm Bleeding edge channel? The official ‘guix’ channel is rolling; guix pull updates you to the latest commit (i.e., “bleeding edge”). Third‑party channels add extra packages. Guile Documentá appears to be provided via the author’s personal channel (per the manual), not always the official channel. You can also use “bleeding edge” of any channel via guix time-machine with a specific commit. Quick checks Bash guix pull # update your local channel checkout guix describe # see channel commits you’re on guix search documenta guix show guile-documenta || echo "not found in current channels" If guile-documenta isn’t found: add the author’s channel Create a temporary channels file (replace the URL with the one from the project’s Codeberg README; I’ll fill it in if you paste it here): Bash cat > channels-documenta.scm <<'EOF' (list (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)) (channel (name 'documenta) (url "URL_FROM_CODEBERG_FOR_DOCUMENTA_CHANNEL")) ) EOF Use it immediately without touching your global channels (recommended for testing): Bash # See what this channel set resolves to: guix time-machine -C channels-documenta.scm -- describe # Run Documentá ad‑hoc without permanently installing: guix time-machine -C channels-documenta.scm -- shell guile-documenta texinfo -- \ documenta --version # Generate API docs from a Guix checkout (HTML/Info fast, PDF needs TeX) git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git cd guix export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" # Generate Texinfo API from the 'guix' module tree: guix time-machine -C ../channels-documenta.scm -- shell guile-documenta texinfo -- \ documenta api guix --destination doc/api # Wrap it in a tiny manual cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF # Build HTML or Info (fast) makeinfo --no-split --html -o doc/guix-api.html doc/main.texi makeinfo --no-split --info -o doc/guix-api.info doc/main.texi Optional: PDF in Codespaces Bash sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o doc/guix-api.pdf doc/main.texi If you prefer to permanently add the channel Bash mkdir -p ~/.config/guix cp channels-documenta.scm ~/.config/guix/channels.scm guix pull guix search documenta guix install guile-documenta . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" documenta --version Notes GUILE_LOAD_PATH must include the repo root you’re documenting (export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"), so imports like (guix gexp) resolve from the checkout. If you later want the massive full tree, use: documenta api guix gnu --destination doc/api Some Documentá versions require quoting multiple sources: documenta api "guix gnu" --destination doc/api Security: Only add channels you trust. For reproducible runs, pin exact commits: guix time-machine --commit=<COMMIT> -C channels-documenta.scm -- … If you paste the exact Codeberg channel URL/snippet for Documentá, I’ll give you a ready-to-paste channels-documenta.scm with a pinned commit for fast, reproducible installs. I'm not sure why it's not finding guile-documenta. Where are packages listed in the guix repository and the local machine? Is there a bleeding edge channel? gpt-5-high Nice—since you’ve got Guix working in your Codespace, here’s a copy‑paste recipe to install Guile Documentá and generate docs from the Guix source. I’ll show HTML/Info (fast, no LaTeX) and PDF (needs TeX). Install Guile Documentá (into your user profile) Make sure your Guix environment is live Install Documentá and expose it on PATH Bash guix pull guix install guile-documenta texinfo # Make sure your profile is sourced in this shell: . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" # Sanity check documenta --version makeinfo --version If guix install guile-documenta says “unknown package”, add the author’s channel per the project README, run guix pull again, then retry the install. Grab the Guix sources and run Documentá This generates Texinfo under doc/api Bash # Clone Guix (or cd into your existing checkout) git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git cd guix # Make sure Guile can resolve modules from this checkout export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" # Choose what to document: # Just the Guix module tree (smaller): documenta api guix --destination doc/api # Both 'guix' and 'gnu' trees (large; slower, big output): # documenta api guix gnu --destination doc/api # If your Documentá requires quoting for multiple sources, use: # documenta api "guix gnu" --destination doc/api Optional: generate docs for a single module or subdir Bash # Single module file: documenta api guix/gexp.scm --destination doc/api-gexp # A subdirectory tree: documenta api guix/build-system --destination doc/api-build-system Build a single manual around the generated API Create a tiny wrapper and build outputs Bash # Create a small wrapper manual that includes the generated API cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF HTML and Info (fast; doesn’t need LaTeX) Bash # Single-file HTML makeinfo --no-split --html -o doc/guix-api.html doc/main.texi # GNU info file makeinfo --no-split --info -o doc/guix-api.info doc/main.texi PDF (needs TeX) Easiest in Codespaces is to use apt for TeX Live Bash sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended # Build the PDF makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o doc/guix-api.pdf doc/main.texi Where things land Texinfo tree: guix/doc/api/ Wrapper manual: guix/doc/main.texi Outputs: HTML: guix/doc/guix-api.html Info: guix/doc/guix-api.info PDF: guix/doc/guix-api.pdf Notes and tips If documenta fails to load some modules, keep GUILE_LOAD_PATH pointing at the repo root (export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="$PWD:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH") and start with just the guix directory. For reproducibility, you can run Documentá without installing it via: guix shell guile-documenta texinfo -- documenta api guix --destination doc/api The “gnu” tree is huge—start with just “guix” until you’re happy with the format. Want me to tailor the sources list (e.g., only (guix gexp), (guix packages), etc.) or output one PDF per module? I can paste those commands too. I ended up opening and codespace and installing guix interactively. Can you paste me commands to install the doc parser and use it? gpt-5-high Thanks for the logs — that explains a lot. What happened with the “no code for module (ice-9 modules)” error That Guile run is using Debian’s Guile 3.0.7. The message means Guile couldn’t find its own standard library module, which usually happens when the runtime package is present but the Scheme module files aren’t (or the search path is misconfigured). On Ubuntu/Debian runners this can happen if only guile-3.0 is installed but not guile-3.0-libs (and sometimes guile-3.0-dev helps too). Even though %load-path shows /usr/share/guile/3.0, the needed ice-9 files might not actually be there in that image. Quick fix for the “introspection” workflow: explicitly install both guile-3.0 and guile-3.0-libs, and add a tiny sanity test. Patch for the introspection workflow (if you still want that fallback) Change the install step to: name: Install Guile (ensure stdlib) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y guile-3.0 guile-3.0-libs guile-3.0 -c '(use-modules (ice-9 modules)) (display "OK\n")' If that OK prints, your earlier extractor script should work again. About Guix not in PATH and using the official installer Yes, using the official install.sh is fine; in CI you still want to start guix-daemon manually and add the Guix profile bins to PATH across steps. And yes, I’m prepending the checkout dir when generating docs so modules resolve: GUILE_LOAD_PATH points at the repo root you’re documenting. Here’s a cleaned-up, single workflow that: Uses the official install.sh Starts the daemon explicitly Adds the right PATH entries Sets GUILE_LOAD_PATH so Documentá can import (guix …)/(gnu …) Builds a single PDF .github/workflows/documenta-guix.yml YAML name: Guix + Guile Documentá → Guix API PDF on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 MODULE_SOURCES: "guix" # change to: "guix gnu" for everything (large) steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install host deps (Texinfo/PDF) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y curl xz-utils git gnupg ca-certificates \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Install Guix via official script run: | set -eux curl -L https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh -o install.sh chmod +x install.sh # installer may try systemd bits; don't fail the job if those parts error sudo -E ./install.sh || true # Ensure build users exist (idempotent) sudo groupadd --system guixbuild || true for i in $(seq -w 1 10); do sudo useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild -d /var/empty \ -s "$(command -v nologin || echo /usr/sbin/nologin)" \ -c "Guix build user $i" guixbuilder$i || true done # Start the daemon explicitly sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild \ --disable-chroot \ --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' & sleep 5 # Make root's current-guix available to next steps echo "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" guix --version - name: guix pull (user) and add to PATH run: | set -eux guix pull echo "$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" guix describe - name: Install Guile Documentá run: | set -eux guix install guile-documenta echo "$HOME/.guix-profile/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" which documenta documenta --version || true - name: Clone Guix sources (to document) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git - name: Generate Texinfo API with Documentá working-directory: guix env: # Prepend the checkout dir so (guix …)/(gnu …) resolve GUILE_LOAD_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/guix run: | mkdir -p doc documenta api $MODULE_SOURCES --destination doc/api cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf Notes PATH: We append three locations to GITHUB_PATH so later steps see guix and documenta: /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin (initial guix) $HOME/.config/guix/current/bin (after guix pull) $HOME/.guix-profile/bin (after guix install guile-documenta) GUILE_LOAD_PATH: set to the Guix checkout so Documentá can load the modules it’s documenting. If guix install guile-documenta errors with “unknown package”, add the author’s channel in $HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm and rerun. I can drop that in if you paste the channel snippet/URL. Optional: caching to speed up re-runs You can pair the above with Actions cache for: the Guix binary tarball (if you switch back to manual tarball install), and a tar.zst of the store closure keyed by guix describe -f channels. I can paste the cache-extended version once your first clean run succeeds with install.sh. If you still want the fast “introspection” route Make sure you install both guile-3.0 and guile-3.0-libs, then run the extractor. If it still fails, add a debug step: name: Debug Guile stdlib run: | ls -l /usr/share/guile/3.0/ice-9 || true test -f /usr/share/guile/3.0/ice-9/modules.scm && echo "modules.scm present" guile-3.0 -c '(use-modules (ice-9 modules)) (display "OK\n")' Ping me when the new run finishes (green or red), and I’ll adjust quickly based on the logs. It's still redownloading guix for the cache to test the new code. Meanwhile, here's the path details for the much earlier failure: text 0s Run which guile || true which guile || true which guile-3.0 || true guile --version || true guile-3.0 --version guile-3.0 -c '(display (effective-version))(newline)' guile-3.0 -c '(for-each (lambda (p) (display p)(newline)) %load-path)' shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0} env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/guile /usr/bin/guile-3.0 guile (GNU Guile) 3.0.7 Packaged by Debian (3.0.7-deb+3.0.7-1) Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. guile (GNU Guile) 3.0.7 Packaged by Debian (3.0.7-deb+3.0.7-1) Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 3.0 /usr/share/guile/3.0 /usr/share/guile/site/3.0 /usr/share/guile/site /usr/share/guile 0s Run guile-3.0 -c '(display %load-path)(newline)' guile-3.0 -c '(display %load-path)(newline)' guile-3.0 scripts/extract-docs.scm test -f build/guix-modules.md && head -n 20 build/guix-modules.md || true shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0} env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 GUILE_LOAD_PATH: /home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix (/home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix /usr/share/guile/3.0 /usr/share/guile/site/3.0 /usr/share/guile/site /usr/share/guile) ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable. ;;; compiling /home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/scripts/extract-docs.scm ;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/scripts/extract-docs.scm failed: ;;; no code for module (ice-9 modules) Backtrace: 8 (primitive-load "/home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/gu…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 721:20 7 (primitive-eval (use-modules (ice-9 modules) (ice-9 …) …)) In ice-9/psyntax.scm: 1230:36 6 (expand-top-sequence ((use-modules (ice-9 modules) # …)) …) 1222:19 5 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …) 259:10 4 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) (()) _ c&e (eval) …) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 3927:20 3 (process-use-modules _) 222:17 2 (map1 (((ice-9 modules)) ((ice-9 documentation)) ((…)) …)) 3928:31 1 (_ ((ice-9 modules))) 3329:6 0 (resolve-interface (ice-9 modules) #:select _ #:hide _ # …) ice-9/boot-9.scm:3329:6: In procedure resolve-interface: no code for module (ice-9 modules) Error: Process completed with exit code 1. gpt-5-high You’re right on both points: guix not in PATH: after the binary extract, you must add /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin to PATH (or call it by its absolute path). Then, after guix pull and guix install, also add the user profiles’ bin dirs. Prepending the checkout dir: yes, set GUILE_LOAD_PATH to the repo root when running documenta so it can resolve (guix …) and/or (gnu …) modules. Below is a clean, working workflow that fixes PATH and sets GUILE_LOAD_PATH. Then I show an alternative that uses the official install.sh and still manually starts the daemon (because systemd isn’t guaranteed on GitHub runners). Option A — Manual binary install (recommended for CI) Minimal, reliable, and fast. Adds the right PATH entries and starts the daemon explicitly. .github/workflows/documenta-guix.yml YAML name: Guix + Guile Documentá → Guix API PDF on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 # Document just the Guix module tree by default; change to: "guix gnu" for everything (big). MODULE_SOURCES: "guix" steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install host deps (Texinfo/PDF) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y curl xz-utils bzip2 git gnupg ca-certificates \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Download Guix binary tarball run: | curl -L -o guix-binary.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz - name: Install Guix and start daemon run: | set -eux sudo tar --extract --file=guix-binary.tar.xz --directory=/ --no-same-owner --warning=no-unknown-keyword # Create build users (idempotent) sudo groupadd --system guixbuild || true for i in $(seq -w 1 10); do sudo useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild -d /var/empty \ -s "$(command -v nologin || echo /usr/sbin/nologin)" \ -c "Guix build user $i" guixbuilder$i || true done # Start daemon (we do it explicitly instead of via systemd) sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild \ --disable-chroot \ --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' & sleep 5 # Make the initial root profile 'guix' visible to later steps echo "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" guix --version - name: guix pull (user profile) and expose to PATH run: | set -eux guix pull # Add the per-user "current" profile to PATH for subsequent steps echo "$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" guix describe - name: Install Guile Documentá run: | set -eux guix install guile-documenta # Add the user's default profile to PATH (where documenta lives) echo "$HOME/.guix-profile/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" which documenta documenta --version || true - name: Clone Guix sources (to document) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git - name: Generate Texinfo API with Documentá working-directory: guix env: # Prepend the checkout dir so modules like (guix …) resolve from ./guix GUILE_LOAD_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/guix run: | mkdir -p doc # e.g. MODULE_SOURCES: "guix" or "guix gnu" documenta api $MODULE_SOURCES --destination doc/api # Wrap in a tiny manual that includes the generated API cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf Why this fixes your issues guix not found: we explicitly add /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin, then later add $HOME/.config/guix/current/bin and $HOME/.guix-profile/bin to PATH using $GITHUB_PATH (persists across steps). “Prepending the checkout dir”: we set GUILE_LOAD_PATH to the repo root when running documenta, so (guix …) and (gnu …) resolve from the checked-out source tree even when modules import each other. Option B — Use the official installer script It’s fine to use, but on CI it may try to manage services with systemd. We still start the daemon manually afterward to be safe. Here’s how: YAML - name: Install Guix via official script, then start daemon manually run: | set -eux curl -L https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh -o install.sh chmod +x install.sh # installer may attempt to configure a system service; allow it to fail without breaking CI sudo -E ./install.sh || true # Ensure the daemon is running (explicitly start it if not) sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild \ --disable-chroot \ --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' & sleep 5 echo "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" guix --version Pros/cons of install.sh in CI Pro: “Official.” Handles signature verification and user setup for you. Con: Adds time (GPG verification), and service-manager steps may fail or be no-ops on GitHub runners. You still need to add PATH and start guix-daemon manually. Extra tips If you ever switch to documenting both guix and gnu, set MODULE_SOURCES: "guix gnu". That can be very large; consider keeping “guix” only at first. If Documentá fails on a specific module that drags in FFI deps, we can restrict the sources list or run Documentá under a guix shell with extra inputs (e.g., guile-git). Tell me what it prints and I’ll tune the inputs. If you want, paste your current YAML and I’ll apply the exact edits (PATH lines + GUILE_LOAD_PATH) so you don’t have to hunt for them on your phone. It isn't finding the guix binary in the path after your install step. Would it be cleaner and work well to use the official script at https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh ? Also, are you prepending the checkout dir when generating documentation from the modules subdir? gpt-5-high Great q’s—quick clarity: Yes, I already sent multiple workflows. This one is the “Guix installs Documentá” path, which is the best fit because Documentá is a Guix-native project (no Autotools). The earlier “build from Codeberg” attempt isn’t ideal since it doesn’t ship a configure/make flow. The Guile-introspection workflow is a faster fallback but less polished. Best option for you: Guix + Documentá (recommended), optionally with caching to speed up re-runs. Caching: Yes. We can cache both the Guix binary tarball and a compressed tar of the Guix store closure for Documentá so subsequent runs avoid re-downloading most of Guix packages. Here’s a single workflow that does all that, with caching. .github/workflows/documenta-guix-cached.yml YAML name: Guix + Guile Documentá → Guix API PDF (cached) on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 # Document just the Guix module tree by default; "guix gnu" is larger. MODULE_SOURCES: "guix" steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install host deps (Texinfo/PDF + zstd) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y curl xz-utils zstd git \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra # Cache the Guix binary tarball to avoid re-downloading it. - name: Cache Guix binary tarball id: cache-guix-bin uses: actions/cache@v4 with: path: .cache/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz key: guix-binary-1.4.0 - name: Download Guix binary (if not cached) if: steps.cache-guix-bin.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' run: | mkdir -p .cache/guix curl -L -o .cache/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz \ https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz - name: Install Guix and start daemon run: | set -eux sudo tar --extract \ --file=.cache/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz \ --directory=/ --no-same-owner --warning=no-unknown-keyword sudo groupadd --system guixbuild || true for i in $(seq -w 1 10); do sudo useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild -d /var/empty \ -s "$(command -v nologin || echo /usr/sbin/nologin)" \ -c "Guix build user $i" guixbuilder$i || true done sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild \ --disable-chroot \ --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' & sleep 5 guix --version - name: Configure Guix channels run: | mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/guix" cat > "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" <<'EOF' (list (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)) ;; If guile-documenta is not in your Guix, add the author’s channel here: ;; (channel ;; (name 'documenta) ;; (url "https://codeberg.org/USER/CHANNEL.git";)) ) EOF cat "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" - name: guix pull (update to latest) run: | set -eux guix pull . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" guix describe # Compute a cache key tied to the exact channel revision we just pulled. - name: Compute cache key from channels id: guix-key run: | set -eux . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" guix describe -f channels > channels.scm sha=$(sha256sum channels.scm | cut -d' ' -f1) echo "key=$sha" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" mkdir -p cache # Try to restore a tar.zst of the Guix store closure for Documentá+current-guix. - name: Restore Guix store cache id: store-cache uses: actions/cache@v4 with: path: cache/guix-store-${{ steps.guix-key.outputs.key }}.tar.zst key: guix-store-${{ steps.guix-key.outputs.key }} - name: Extract cached store (if present) if: steps.store-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true' run: | sudo tar -I zstd -xf "cache/guix-store-${{ steps.guix-key.outputs.key }}.tar.zst" -C / - name: Install Guile Documentá via Guix run: | set -eux . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" guix install guile-documenta . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" command -v documenta documenta --version || true # If we missed the cache, pack the closure for next runs. - name: Save store tarball for cache (closure) if: steps.store-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' run: | set -eux . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" # Tar the transitive closures (requisites) of both the current-guix and your profile. paths=$(guix gc --requisites "$HOME/.config/guix/current" "$HOME/.guix-profile") sudo tar -I "zstd -T0 -19" -cf "cache/guix-store-${{ steps.guix-key.outputs.key }}.tar.zst" $paths ls -lh "cache/guix-store-${{ steps.guix-key.outputs.key }}.tar.zst" || true - name: Clone Guix sources (to document) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git - name: Generate Texinfo API with Documentá working-directory: guix run: | mkdir -p doc # If documenting both 'guix' and 'gnu' (huge), set env MODULE_SOURCES: "guix gnu" documenta api $MODULE_SOURCES --destination doc/api # Minimal wrapper manual including the generated API cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF from Texinfo working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf Which is “better” overall? Guix + Documentá (this workflow): best output quality and structure; maintained tool; integrates with Texinfo indices; you can include both (guix …) and (gnu …) trees. First run is slow; caching helps a lot. Guile-introspection scraper: fastest to set up, no Guix daemon, but output is raw docstrings and less organized. Good fallback if you want quick results. Official manual build: solid, but you already noted it lacks the API detail you need. About caching The workflow above: Caches the Guix binary tarball (small win). Caches a compressed tar of the Guix store closure for Documentá and your current-guix revision, keyed by the channel commit. If the channels haven’t changed, subsequent runs should skip most downloads and finish much faster. Caches are immutable per key; new channel commits => new cache key. You can pin channels (guix time-machine) to keep a stable key if you prefer reproducible/fast runs. If you want me to pin Documentá to a specific channel commit (for even better cache hits), tell me the channel URL and I’ll drop in a pinned channels.scm or time-machine variant. Didn't you already send me workflow source for this, or is this different? Which is better? Can it cache the guix download? gpt-5-high You’re right: autoconf failing is expected here. Guile Documentá doesn’t use Autotools; it’s a pure Guile project with a Guix manifest. So the cleanest path on CI is to install/run it via Guix, not “configure/make”. Below is a drop-in GitHub Action that: Bootstraps Guix Installs guile-documenta from Guix (or from the author’s personal channel, if needed) Runs documenta to extract API Texinfo from the Guix source tree Builds a single PDF you can download You can copy-paste this on your phone. .github/workflows/documenta-guix.yml YAML name: Guix + Guile Documentá → Guix API PDF on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 # Adjust which module trees to document: MODULE_SOURCES: "guix" # change to: "guix gnu" (very large) steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install host deps (Texinfo/PDF toolchain) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y curl xz-utils bzip2 git \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Install Guix (binary) and start daemon run: | set -eux # A known-good Guix binary tarball; newer will also work curl -L -o guix-binary.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz sudo tar --extract --file=guix-binary.tar.xz --directory=/ --no-same-owner --warning=no-unknown-keyword # Build users sudo groupadd --system guixbuild || true for i in $(seq -w 1 10); do sudo useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild -d /var/empty -s "$(command -v nologin || echo /usr/sbin/nologin)" -c "Guix build user $i" guixbuilder$i || true done # Start the daemon with standard substitute servers for speed sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild \ --disable-chroot \ --substitute-urls='https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' & sleep 5 guix --version - name: Configure Guix channels run: | mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/guix" # If guile-documenta is available in official Guix for your runner, this is enough. # If not, add the author's personal channel below (replace URL with the real one). # Check the Guile Documentá README for the channel URL/snippet. cat > "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" <<'EOF' (list (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)) ;; Uncomment and set this channel if guile-documenta is NOT in the official channel. ;; (channel ;; (name 'documenta) ;; (url "https://codeberg.org/REPLACE-ME/documenta-guix-channel.git";)) ) EOF cat "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" - name: guix pull and install guile-documenta run: | set -eux # Pull channels and install Documentá guix pull . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" guix describe guix install guile-documenta . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" command -v documenta documenta --version || true - name: Clone Guix sources (to document) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git ls -la guix | head -n 50 - name: Generate Texinfo API with Documentá working-directory: guix run: | mkdir -p doc # For older Documentá versions you may need quotes if multiple sources: # documenta api "guix gnu" --destination doc/api documenta api $MODULE_SOURCES --destination doc/api # Minimal wrapper Texinfo that includes the generated API cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API The following API reference was generated from Guix source files using Guile Documentá. @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF from Texinfo working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf What to expect and tweak First run can be slow while Guix downloads substitutes. It’s normal. Subsequent runs will be faster on a warm runner, but GitHub runners are ephemeral, so consider running at off-peak times. If guix install guile-documenta fails with “unknown package”, add the author’s channel to channels.scm. The manual mentions a “personal Guix Channel X.” Paste its exact Codeberg URL/name and I’ll pin it in the workflow for you. Scope: MODULE_SOURCES is "guix" by default (sane size). If you change it to "guix gnu", the PDF will be much larger and take longer. Why the earlier “autoconf” attempt broke Documentá doesn’t ship a configure/make build; it’s Guile + a Guix manifest. Installing via Guix or running the script in a Guix shell is the intended workflow. If you need a no-Guix fallback We can still use the Guile-introspection scraper I gave before (fixed to call guile-3.0 explicitly) and generate a quick-and-dirty PDF. It won’t be as polished as Documentá’s Texinfo, but it works without Guix. Say the word and I’ll post a minimal YAML+script bundle. Want me to wire the exact Documentá channel now? Share the channel snippet or Codeberg URL (from the project README), and which module trees you want (guix only, or guix+gnu). I’ll drop it into the channels.scm block and push a tuned workflow. It's checking out from codeberg now but autoconf fails; documenta is in scheme and has only a guix manifest file. The other workflows are still processing, guix is downloading slowly. The official manual build failed but I didn't look into it because I have a copy of the manual and the api documentation is lacking for me. gpt-5-high Short answer: yes, using Guix to install Guile Documentá is reasonable. On GitHub Actions you just need to bootstrap Guix (start a guix-daemon), then guix install guile-documenta, run documenta, and render the generated Texinfo to PDF. Below are two copy‑paste workflows you can add from your phone. Option 1 — Use Guix to install Guile Documentá, then build PDF This sets up a working Guix on the GitHub runner, installs guile-documenta with guix, generates Texinfo from the Guix sources, and compiles it into a single PDF. In your repo, create .github/workflows/documenta-guix.yml with: YAML name: Guix + Documentá (build Guix API PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install host deps (for PDF) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y curl xz-utils bzip2 git \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Install Guix (binary) and start daemon run: | set -eux curl -L -o guix-binary.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz sudo tar --extract --file=guix-binary.tar.xz --directory=/ --no-same-owner --warning=no-unknown-keyword # Build users sudo groupadd --system guixbuild || true for i in $(seq -w 1 10); do sudo useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild -d /var/empty -s "$(command -v nologin || echo /usr/sbin/nologin)" -c "Guix build user $i" guixbuilder$i || true done # Start daemon (non-chroot is fine for Actions) sudo -E /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild --disable-chroot & sleep 5 /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix --version - name: Configure Guix channels (add Documentá channel if needed) run: | mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/guix" # If Documentá is in a personal channel, add it here. # Replace the URL below with the correct one for Documentá's channel. cat > "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" <<'EOF' (list (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)) ;; If Documentá isn't in the official Guix channel, uncomment and set: ;; (channel ;; (name 'documenta) ;; (url "https://codeberg.org/USER/CHANNEL.git";)) ) EOF cat "$HOME/.config/guix/channels.scm" - name: guix pull and install guile-documenta run: | set -eux guix pull . "$HOME/.config/guix/current/etc/profile" guix install guile-documenta . "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" which documenta documenta --version || true - name: Clone Guix sources run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git - name: Generate Texinfo with Documentá working-directory: guix run: | mkdir -p doc # Document only the 'guix' module tree to keep PDF size sane. # You can add 'gnu' too (huge) by passing: "guix gnu" documenta api guix --destination doc/api # Minimal wrapper to include the generated API into one PDF cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API API extracted from the Guix source tree using Guile Documentá. @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF from Texinfo working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf What to edit: If guile-documenta is not in the official Guix channel on your runner, you must add its channel URL in the channels.scm step. Please paste the channel URL for Documentá (from its Codeberg README) and I’ll drop it in for you. Pros/cons: Pro: Very “Guix-y,” reproducible once pinned. You can also pin with guix time-machine for exact commits. Con: First run takes longer (guix pull + install), typically 5–15 minutes. Option 2 — Skip Guix; build Documentá from Codeberg and run it If you’d rather avoid setting up Guix in Actions, you can compile Documentá from its Codeberg repo and use the system Guile. Update the repo URL if it differs. Create .github/workflows/documenta-codeberg.yml: YAML name: Documentá from Codeberg (build Guix API PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 PREFIX: ${{ github.workspace }}/.local steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install deps (Guile, build tools, Texinfo/LaTeX) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y \ git autoconf automake libtool make pkg-config \ guile-3.0 guile-3.0-dev \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Clone and build Guile Documentá (Codeberg) run: | set -eux git clone --depth=1 https://codeberg.org/luis-felipe/guile-documenta.git cd guile-documenta autoreconf -vfi || true ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" make -j"$(nproc)" make install echo "$PREFIX/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH" documenta --version || true - name: Clone Guix sources run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git - name: Generate Texinfo with Documentá working-directory: guix run: | mkdir -p doc documenta api guix --destination doc/api cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf Notes and tips Which path should you use? If you want to be 100% “Guix-native,” pick Option 1. If you just want a working PDF fast, Option 2 is simpler. Big vs small: Documenting the entire gnu/ directory will produce a massive manual; start with just guix/ as shown. You can later run documenta api "guix gnu" if you want everything. Pinning with time-machine: For reproducibility with Option 1, replace guix pull with guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- install guile-documenta and put exact commits in channels.scm. Your earlier error no code for module (ice-9 modules) came from a mismatched/old Guile. Both options above avoid that by either using Guix’s Guile (Option 1) or explicitly installing guile-3.0 (Option 2). If you can share the exact Codeberg repo URL for Documentá’s channel (if it has one), I’ll update Option 1’s channels.scm block so guix install guile-documenta works out of the box. It tries to clone documenta from gitlab but it's on codeberg. It would seem best to use guix to install it with guix install guile-documenta. Is that reasonable? gpt-5-high Thanks for the link — yes, Guile Documentá is real and looks maintained (it even has a 2025 changelog). We can use it. But first, let’s fix the error you hit. Why you got “no code for module (ice-9 modules)” On ubuntu-latest, the guile binary on PATH can be a stub or an older/minimal build without standard modules. Installing guile-3.0 doesn’t necessarily make /usr/bin/guile point to it. When your workflow ran guile scripts/extract-docs.scm, it likely invoked the wrong guile. Hence it can’t even load (ice-9 modules). Two solid fixes A) Call guile-3.0 explicitly and remove package conflicts. B) Also, your Scheme script needs (use-modules (ice-9 documentation)) and should not crash if “build/” exists. Below are copy-pasteable updates. Patch your current Option B workflow Replace your .github/workflows/build-api-docs.yml with this: YAML name: Build API docs from Guix docstrings (PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: push: branches: [ main, master ] jobs: api-docs: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 # more predictable Guile packaging env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install deps (Guile 3.0, Pandoc, LaTeX) run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y \ git ca-certificates \ guile-3.0 \ pandoc \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra # Show which guile we have which guile || true guile --version || true which guile-3.0 guile-3.0 --version - name: Clone Guix sources (for module load path) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git ls -la guix | head -n 50 - name: Extract docstrings to Markdown (force Guile 3.0) env: GUILE_LOAD_PATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/guix run: | guile-3.0 -c '(display %load-path)(newline)' guile-3.0 scripts/extract-docs.scm test -f build/guix-modules.md && head -n 20 build/guix-modules.md || true - name: Convert Markdown to PDF via pandoc run: | pandoc build/guix-modules.md \ -V geometry:margin=1in \ -V documentclass:article \ -o build/guix-api-docs.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-docs path: build/guix-api-docs.pdf Update your extractor script Replace scripts/extract-docs.scm with this: scheme #!/usr/bin/env -S guile-3.0 -e main -s !# ;; Extract Guix module docs from docstrings into a Markdown file. ;; Produces: build/guix-modules.md ;; Requires GUILE_LOAD_PATH to include the Guix checkout (the repo top-level). (use-modules (ice-9 modules) (ice-9 documentation) (ice-9 pretty-print) (ice-9 format) (srfi srfi-1)) (define major-modules '((guix) (guix utils) (guix records) (guix licenses) (guix base32) (guix download) (guix git) (guix gexp) (guix packages) (guix profiles) (guix store) (guix build-system) (guix build-system gnu) (guix build-system cmake) (guix build-system go) (guix build-system python) (guix build-system emacs))) (define (safe thunk) (catch #t (lambda () (thunk)) (lambda args #f))) (define (var->doc var) (safe (lambda () (let ((val (and (variable-bound? var) (variable-ref var)))) (or (and val (procedure? val) (procedure-documentation val)) (variable-documentation var) #f))))) (define (module->entries m) (let ((entries '()) (iface (module-public-interface m))) (module-map (lambda (sym var) (let ((doc (var->doc var))) (when (and doc (string? doc) (not (string-null? doc))) (set! entries (cons (list sym doc) entries))))) iface) (sort entries (lambda (a b) (string-ci<? (symbol->string (car a)) (symbol->string (car b))))))) (define (module-name->string name) (string-join (map symbol->string name) " ")) (define (mkdir-p path) (false-if-exception (mkdir path #o755))) (define (doc-module port name) (let ((m (safe (lambda () (resolve-interface name))))) (if (not m) (format port "\n# Module (~a)\n\nCould not load this module (skipped).\n" (module-name->string name)) (let* ((entries (module->entries m))) (format port "\n# Module (~a)\n\n" (module-name->string name)) (if (null? entries) (format port "_No documented bindings found._\n\n") (for-each (lambda (pair) (let ((sym (car pair)) (doc (cadr pair))) (format port "## ~a\n\n" (symbol->string sym)) ;; Docstrings are often Texinfo; we keep them as-is. (format port "~a\n\n" doc))) entries)))))) (define (main args) (let ((out-dir "build") (out-file "build/guix-modules.md")) (mkdir-p out-dir) (call-with-output-file out-file (lambda (port) (format port "# Guix API (docstrings dump)\n\n") (for-each (lambda (name) (doc-module port name)) major-modules))) (format #t "Wrote ~a\n" out-file))) What changed We call guile-3.0 explicitly in the workflow and the script shebang. We removed apt guix (that package can confuse Guile on Ubuntu runners). We add GUILE_LOAD_PATH=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/guix so imports like (guix gexp) resolve from the cloned Guix repo. The script now imports (ice-9 documentation) and won’t fail if build/ already exists. Optional: Use Guile Documentá instead (clean Texinfo → PDF) If you’d like polished Texinfo output generated from the sources (and then a single PDF), Documentá is a good fit. Here’s a workflow that builds Documentá from source, runs it on the Guix checkout, and compiles the result to a PDF: YAML name: Build Guix API docs with Guile Documentá (PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: jobs: documenta: runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 env: LANG: C.UTF-8 LC_ALL: C.UTF-8 PREFIX: ${{ github.workspace }}/.local steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install toolchain run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y \ git ca-certificates \ guile-3.0 \ autoconf automake libtool make pkg-config \ texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Clone and build Guile Documentá run: | git clone --depth=1 https://gitlab.com/luis-felipe/guile-documenta.git cd guile-documenta # If the release already ships 'configure', you can skip autoreconf autoreconf -vfi || true ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX" make -j$(nproc) make install echo "$PREFIX/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH documenta --help || true - name: Clone Guix sources run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git ls guix | head -n 20 - name: Generate Texinfo API with Documentá working-directory: guix run: | mkdir -p doc # Generate API texi into doc/api from the 'guix' module directory documenta api guix --destination doc/api # Create a tiny main.texi that includes the generated API cat > doc/main.texi <<'EOF' \input texinfo @setfilename guix-api @settitle Guix API (generated by Guile Documentá) @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @node Top @top Guix API The following API reference was generated from Guix source files using Guile Documentá. @menu * API:: @end menu @node API @chapter API @include api/index.texi @bye EOF - name: Build PDF from Texinfo (makeinfo/texi2pdf) working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-api-documenta.pdf main.texi ls -lh guix-api-documenta.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-documenta path: guix/doc/guix-api-documenta.pdf Notes on the Documentá workflow We build Documentá from its GitLab repo directly. If the build system evolves, this may need small tweaks (configure flags, etc.). The command documenta api guix points it at the guix/guix directory; you can pass more sources, e.g. "guix gnu". You get nicely structured Texinfo and indices; the PDF will look closer to hand-written manuals than a raw dump. If anything still breaks Add this diagnostic step before running your script: YAML - name: Diagnose Guile paths run: | which guile || true which guile-3.0 || true guile --version || true guile-3.0 --version guile-3.0 -c '(display (effective-version))(newline)' guile-3.0 -c '(for-each (lambda (p) (display p)(newline)) %load-path)' Want me to tune the module list, split PDFs per module, or wire Documentá to include both (guix …) and (gnu …) trees? I ran into this error: Run guile scripts/extract-docs.scm test -f build/guix-modules.md && head -n 20 build/guix-modules.md || true shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0} ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable. ;;; compiling /home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/scripts/extract-docs.scm ;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/scripts/extract-docs.scm failed: ;;; no code for module (ice-9 modules) Backtrace: 8 (primitive-load "/home/runner/work/guix-docs-pdf-gpt/gu…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 721:20 7 (primitive-eval (use-modules (ice-9 modules) (ice-9 …) …)) In ice-9/psyntax.scm: 1229:36 6 (expand-top-sequence (#<syntax:extract-docs.scm:6:0 (…>) …) 1221:19 5 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …) 259:10 4 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) (()) _ c&e (eval) …) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 3935:20 3 (process-use-modules _) 222:17 2 (map1 (((ice-9 modules)) ((ice-9 rdelim)) ((ice-9 #)) …)) 3936:31 1 (_ ((ice-9 modules))) 3330:6 0 (resolve-interface (ice-9 modules) #:select _ #:hide _ # …) ice-9/boot-9.scm:3330:6: In procedure resolve-interface: no code for module (ice-9 modules) Error: Process completed with exit code 1.``` Guile Documentá is at https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/guile-documenta/ . Here's the manual main page: ```\input texinfo @setfilename guile-documenta @c HEADER @settitle Guile Documentá @documentlanguage en @documentencoding UTF-8 @afourpaper @c END HEADER @c MASTER MENU @node Top @top Overview This software is a command-line program and accompanying library to generate API documentation for @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/, GNU Guile} Scheme projects. You can find additional information in @url{https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/guile-documenta/, Guile Documentá's website}. Note that a copy of this documentation should also be available locally in your device, in @code{info} format, once you install the program. You can browse it with any info reader. For example: @example $ info guile-documenta @end example Guile Documentá is a @url{https://freedomdefined.org/Definition, Free Cultural Work} (@pxref{Copying Information}). (The word @emph{documentá} is an imperative form of the Spanish verb @emph{documentar}, which means @emph{to document}.) @menu Chapters * Usage:: Generating documentation from source code. * CLI:: Command-line interface reference. * API:: Application programming interface reference. Appendices * Version History:: Versions released so far and summary of the changes introduced in each of them. * Copying Information:: About the dedication of Guile Documentá to the public domain. Indices * Concept Index:: * Data Type Index:: * Procedure Index:: * Variable Index:: @c Here you can put a detailmenu command to add exactly that. @end menu @c END MASTER MENU @c TABLE OF CONTENTS @contents @c END TABLE OF CONTENTS @c CHAPTER: Usage @node Usage @chapter Usage Guile Documentá comes with a program called @command{documenta}, which you can use to generate API documentation for your Guile Scheme project. The resulting documentation will be written in @url{https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/, Texinfo} format. For example, let's suppose we have a project called @sc{Bogus X} and that we keep its source files in a folder as follows: @example bogus-x ← Project directory ├── bogusx ← Guile Scheme "package" │ ├── module-a.scm ← Guile Scheme module │ └── module-b.scm ├── doc ← Project documentation in Texinfo format │ └── main.texi ├── tests └── README.org @end example In the example, the project already has some documentation written by hand in @file{doc/main.texi}, and we want to complement it with API documentation. To do so, we generate it as follows: @example $ cd bogus-x $ documenta api bogusx @end example The @ref{cli-api, api} subcommand will inspect all the modules in the @file{bogusx} directory and build API reference documentation that will then be saved in Texinfo format to the @file{doc/api} folder: @example bogus-x ├── bogusx ├── doc │ ├── api ← Newly extracted API documentation │ │ └── index.texi │ └── main.texi ├── tests └── README.org @end example For more complex projects, you can pass a quoted list of the module files and directories that compose the whole API of the project. For example: @example $ cd another-project $ documenta api "mylib.scm mylib" @end example Finally, we can integrate the API documentation into the @file{main.texi} documentation using Texinfo's @code{@@include} command. For example: @verbatim @include api/index.texi @end verbatim @c END CHAPTER: Usage @c CHAPTER: CLI @node CLI @chapter CLI Guile Documentá comes with the @command{documenta} program, which recognizes the following subcommands: @quotation Note Guile Documentá does not currently extract @abbr{CLI, Command Line Interface} documentation from the source code, but it is intended to do so in the future. The following documentation is (re)written by hand (sadly). @end quotation @anchor{cli-api} @section @code{api} command The @code{api} command extracts @abbr{API, Application Programming Interface} documentation from one or more Guile Scheme modules. @subsection Examples @example # Extract API documentation from one Scheme file: documenta api mylib.scm # Extract API documentation from one Scheme directory (recursively): documenta api mylib # Extract API documentation from both a Scheme file and directory: documenta api "mylib.scm mylib" @end example @quotation Note Having to quote the list of sources in the last example is a limitation that is expected to be removed in the future. So it could simply become: @example documenta api mylib.scm mylib etc @end example @end quotation @example # Save API documentation to a specific directory: documenta api mylib --destination mydoc/api @end example @subsection Interface specification @verbatim documenta api sources [--destination] @end verbatim @defblock @defline Argument sources Absolute or relative paths to Guile Scheme modules that compose the code whose API documentation will be extracted. These paths can lead to both Scheme files or Scheme directories. @defline {Keyword argument} --destination or -d Optional path to a directory where the final Texinfo files will be saved. If not provided, @var{DEFAULT_DOC_PATH} is used (see the module @ref{documenta_commands}). @end defblock @c END CHAPTER: CLI @c CHAPTER: API @include api/index.texi @c END CHAPTER: API @c APPENDICES @node Version History @appendix Version History @table @dfn @item Version 0.4.0, July 05, 2025 @itemize @item @code{api} command: The @code{source} argument is now called @code{sources} and accepts one or more paths to Guile Scheme modules or Guile Scheme directories. For example: @example $ documenta api libx.scm $ documenta api liby $ documenta api "libz.scm libz" @end example @item @code{api} command: The @code{destination} argument, which was a positional argument, became a keyword argument called @code{--destination}, and abbreviated as @code{-d}. @end itemize @item Version 0.3.0, June 22, 2025 @itemize @item Macros are now documented with name, arguments and documentation strings instead of simply copied verbatim to the exported documentation. @item Added support to document parameter objects. Module documentation sections now include a "Parameters" subsection if they export parameters. The parameters are also listed in the "Variable Index". @end itemize @item Version 0.2.1, Oct 16, 2023 @itemize @item Enable installing Guile Documentá from the package provided by my personal Guix Channel X. Two unit tests that pass in Guile Documentá's development environment (which uses Guix shell) were failing when building the package with Guix. Both tests were marked as expected fails to make the test suite pass regardless of the issues and be able to install the package successfully. This is a temporary fix until the origin of the issues is found. @end itemize @item Version 0.2.0, May 31, 2023 @itemize @item Rename @command{extract} command to @command{api} so that it is easier to separate API documentation and CLI documentation extraction. @item Add project website. @end itemize @item Version 0.1.0, April 13, 2023 @itemize @item Initial release of the software providing a program to generate API documentation of Guile Scheme libraries in Texinfo format. @end itemize @end table @node Copying Information @appendix Copying Information Public domain 2023 @url{https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/, Luis Felipe López Acevedo}. All rights waived. Guile Documentá has been released into the public domain by its author. This applies universewide. @c END APPENDICES @c INDICES @node Concept Index @unnumbered Concept Index @printindex cp @node Data Type Index @unnumbered Data Type Index @printindex tp @node Procedure Index @unnumbered Procedure Index @printindex fn @node Variable Index @unnumbered Variable Index @printindex vr @c END INDICES @bye gpt-5-high Short answer: there isn’t a widely adopted, actively maintained “Sphinx-for-Guile” doc generator. I’m not confident that Guile Documentá is maintained or commonly used. If you can share the repo you mean, I can evaluate it and wire it up—but for something stable today, the most “maintained” path is to use Guile’s built-ins. What is maintained and works reliably Guile’s own introspection: procedure-documentation, variable-documentation from (ice-9 documentation) resolve-interface / module-map from (ice-9 modules) Texinfo toolchain: Docstrings in Guile/Guix are typically Texinfo fragments; you can dump them and render with makeinfo/texi2pdf. Geiser (Emacs) uses the same Guile APIs for “help,” but it’s not a standalone generator. Comparable options Roll-your-own with the Guile runtime (maintained, stable): enumerate exports, read docstrings, assemble a .texi or .md, and then render to PDF. I can give you a ready-to-run script and a GitHub Action (I already shared a Markdown+Pandoc version; I can also give a Texinfo-based one for cleaner formatting). Use the official Guix manual (Texinfo) and build the PDF. This is the canonical, maintained documentation for Guix modules and is what most users rely on. If you were specifically thinking of a project named “Documentá,” point me to its URL and I’ll integrate it into a GH Action for you. Otherwise, want me to drop in a Texinfo-based scraper (Guile-only, no Pandoc) so you get a single polished PDF built in Actions? Are you familiar with Guile Documentá or any comparable tool for scraping docstrings in a maintained manner? gpt-5-high Got you. Easiest path: let GitHub Actions do the heavy lifting in the cloud and you just download the PDF on your phone. Below are two ready-to-use setups: Option A (recommended): Build the official Guix manual as a single PDF. It already documents most major modules and APIs. Option B (experimental): Auto-generate API docs from Guile/Guix docstrings and compile to PDF. I’ll give you copy-paste files and step-by-step instructions you can do from a phone. Option A — Build the official Guix manual PDF This uses Texinfo sources from the Guix repo and produces a guix-manual.pdf artifact. Make a new GitHub repo (empty) On your phone: GitHub → + → New repository → name it guix-docs-pdf (anything works) Add this workflow file In your repo, Add file → Create new file Path: .github/workflows/build-guix-manual.yml Paste this: YAML name: Build Guix manual (PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: push: branches: [ main, master ] jobs: manual: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout (empty repo is fine) uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install toolchain run: | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y git texinfo \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra \ texlive-plain-generic - name: Fetch Guix sources (doc only) run: | git clone --depth=1 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git cd guix/doc # Minimal version.texi so we don't need ./configure cat > version.texi <<'EOF' @c Autogenerated by GitHub Actions @set EDITION snapshot @set VERSION snapshot @set UPDATED 2025-01-01 @set UPDATED-MONTH Jan EOF - name: Build PDF with makeinfo working-directory: guix/doc run: | makeinfo --no-split --pdf -o guix-manual.pdf guix.texi - name: Upload PDF artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-manual-pdf path: guix/doc/guix-manual.pdf Run it Go to Actions → Build Guix manual (PDF) → Run workflow. When it finishes, open the run → Artifacts → guix-manual-pdf → download the PDF. Notes This is the official manual. It includes the “Programming Interface” chapters that document major modules like (guix packages), (guix gexp), etc. For most use cases, this is what you want. Option B — Generate API docs from Guix docstrings, then PDF This tries to load Guix modules in Guile, pull their docstrings, write Markdown, and then convert to PDF. It’s more “codey,” can be tweaked, and might miss undocumented bindings. Add the extractor script Add file → Create new file Path: scripts/extract-docs.scm Paste: scheme #!/usr/bin/env guile !# ;; Extract Guix module docs from docstrings into a Markdown file. ;; Produces: build/guix-modules.md (use-modules (ice-9 modules) (ice-9 rdelim) (ice-9 pretty-print) (ice-9 format) (srfi srfi-1)) (define major-modules '((guix) (guix utils) (guix records) (guix licenses) (guix base32) (guix download) (guix git) (guix gexp) (guix packages) (guix profiles) (guix store) (guix build-system gnu) (guix build-system cmake) (guix build-system go) (guix build-system python) (guix build-system emacs))) (define (safe thunk) (catch #t (lambda () (thunk)) (lambda args #f))) (define (var->doc var) (safe (lambda () (let ((val (and (variable-bound? var) (variable-ref var)))) (or (and val (procedure? val) (procedure-documentation val)) (variable-documentation var) #f))))) (define (module->entries m) (let ((entries '())) (module-map (lambda (sym var) (let ((doc (var->doc var))) (when (and doc (string? doc) (not (string-null? doc))) (set! entries (cons (list sym doc) entries))))) m) (sort entries (lambda (a b) (string-ci<? (symbol->string (car a)) (symbol->string (car b))))))) (define (module-name->string name) (string-join (map symbol->string name) " ")) (define (doc-module port name) (let ((m (safe (lambda () (resolve-interface name))))) (if (not m) (format port "\n# Module (~a)\n\nCould not load this module (skipped).\n" (module-name->string name)) (let* ((entries (module->entries m))) (format port "\n# Module (~a)\n\n" (module-name->string name)) (if (null? entries) (format port "_No documented bindings found._\n\n") (for-each (lambda (pair) (let ((sym (car pair)) (doc (cadr pair))) (format port "## ~a\n\n" (symbol->string sym)) ;; Docstrings in Guix often use Texinfo; we leave them as-is. (format port "~a\n\n" doc))) entries)))))) (define (main args) (let ((out-dir "build") (out-file "build/guix-modules.md")) (mkdir out-dir 493) ;; 0755 (call-with-output-file out-file (lambda (port) (format port "# Guix API (docstrings dump)\n\n") (for-each (lambda (name) (doc-module port name)) major-modules))) (format #t "Wrote ~a\n" out-file))) Add the workflow Add file → Create new file Path: .github/workflows/build-api-docs.yml Paste: YAML name: Build API docs from Guix docstrings (PDF) on: workflow_dispatch: push: branches: [ main, master ] jobs: api-docs: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Install deps (Guile, Guix, Pandoc, LaTeX) run: | sudo apt-get update # guix package is in Ubuntu repos; if this fails, see note below. sudo apt-get install -y guile-3.0 guix pandoc \ texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended \ texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra - name: Extract docstrings to Markdown run: | guile scripts/extract-docs.scm test -f build/guix-modules.md && head -n 20 build/guix-modules.md || true - name: Convert Markdown to PDF via pandoc run: | pandoc build/guix-modules.md \ -V geometry:margin=1in \ -V documentclass:article \ -o build/guix-api-docs.pdf - name: Upload artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: guix-api-docs path: build/guix-api-docs.pdf Run it Go to Actions → Build API docs from Guix docstrings (PDF) → Run workflow. Download the artifact guix-api-docs. Notes and pitfalls for Option B If the “Install deps” step fails because the guix package isn’t found on the runner image, try switching the runner to ubuntu-22.04 in the workflow, or use Option A. Installing Guix from its installer requires a privileged daemon and won’t work in GitHub Actions. Some modules may fail to load (e.g., ones that need libguix/FFI); the script will skip those and keep going. Docstrings in Guix frequently use Texinfo markup; the resulting PDF will show those literally (which is fine, just not as polished as the official manual). Which option should you pick? Want a single, complete, nicely formatted PDF that documents major modules? Use Option A. Want a hackable, per-export dump of what’s documented in code right now? Use Option B. If you want, tell me which specific modules you care about and I’ll tune the module list or split into one PDF per module. Hi GPT-5. I'm on lmsys direct chat on an old android phone. I'd like to make pdf format documentation of all the major guix modules maybing using guile documentá, on this phone. Maybe with a github action? Could you write the code to do this if needed and instruct me how? Inputs are processed by third-party AI and responses may be inaccurate.
