Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> 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. This is very exciting to see — sorry for the misinformation I spread. Thanks for pointing it out. Cheers, Alex
