Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Amirouche
>
> Amirouche Boubekki writes:
>
>> Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen
>> <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > - Janneke mentioned the new guile build system in guix for simpler
>> > guile packages and I think that's pretty great. Likewise there was
>> > some mention of some sort of you-don't-have-to-use-autotools build
>> > system and I don't remember what it's name was. (BTW, I continue to
>> > believe that "Guix is and should be Guile's package mangager".)
>>
>> I was unaware that we had a guile build system in Guix.
>>
>> What is it?
>
> I may be misunderstanding — so feel free to clarify!
>
> The build system in Guix would be a value that can be declared in the
> `build-system' field of package definitions. It's basically what tells
> Guix what steps need to be performed to build and install an
> application.
>
> Guile libraries and applications currently need to use the GNU Build
> System, or the trivial build system, with some additional steps that
> need to be added by the packager.
>
> If we had a build system, we could simply stick the `guile-build-system'
> value in the `build-system' field.
This exists. I use it for the picture language, for example. Here’s
the Guix definition:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public guile-picture-language
(let ((commit "1531116036d1b5e0d2482ff2c8d77ad21f1d2bef")
(revision "1"))
(package
(name "guile-picture-language")
(version (git-version "0" revision commit))
(source (origin
(method git-fetch)
(uri (git-reference
(url
"https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-picture-language.git";)
(commit commit)))
(sha256
(base32
"04salmqf5x84vb3qkkxx47b64jyl290zsf3ik81l9hg6fwvvlmq3"))))
(build-system guile-build-system)
(inputs
`(("guile" ,guile-2.2)))
(home-page "https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-picture-language.git";)
(synopsis "Picture language for Guile")
(description
"This package provides a simple SVG-based picture language for Guile.
The picture values can directly be displayed in Geiser.")
(license license:lgpl3+))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This takes care of compiling the files and placing them where they
should go. The upstream picture language repository does not use
Autotools.
--
Ricardo
