On Monday, December 30, 2013 08:16:01 AM John Darrington wrote: > Package definitions reside in gnu/package/*.scm The packages themselves, > once built, get automatically put into /nix/store. > Sorry, I always forget to 'Reply all'. I hope you don't mind if I take this back public.
On Monday, December 30, 2013 02:23:33 PM you wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:57:48AM -0500, Kete wrote: > I'm asking if we're defining packages, how do we build them? > > > What I do is: > > make && ./pre-inst-env guix build <pkg-name> Thanks, what do you do with the scm (Scheme) package definition file? Does it play a part in that? Do we place it in the current directory? What if I used 'guix download', and the tarball is in /nix/store? Will it just work? Wait, what is "pre-inst-env"? I'm a little lost. I'm just trying to contribute a package of my shell, so I can use it in Emacs.
