Hi Vijayalakshmi, welcome to Guix!
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:45:02 +0530 Vijayalakshmi Vedantham <vijima...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really sorry about the effort you had to put into this patch. > I'll try not to do it again. Seriously: I hope you are not discouraged by that. And I hope you do it again and again. Including the errs. Guix is tough stuff and we all did and do our mistakes. And each one helps to understand the system a bit better. And I really like this community because it is so soft and helpful and polite :-) > > > > I also noticed that the sources include files that were generated > > with Cython. Instead of reusing those, we build them from source. > > Luckily all we have to do in this case is to add “python-cython” to > > the native-inputs field. > > > > Can I know how you knew this? I can't speak for Ricardo but only for me: There is some intrinsic knowledge about each build system and each programming language, how they generate things, and how this relates to "building your software really from source in a FSF-compliant way". Just look at how others have done it in their package definitions. Present your package definition and get it reviewed. People will hint you politeful to this knowledge. > Have you been able to build Guix already and try building the > package using “./pre-inst-env guix build”? > > No, I tried last night but I faced some issues, I'll try again > tonight. Before submitting a patch, try to build it at least twice. If you have trouble to build it, submit it anyway and tell why it doesn't build (twice, because of reproducibility). Take a look at the Manual at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Packaging-Guidelines and https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Submitting-Patches The latter one is like a checklist to go through before submitting. Happy Guix-ing, Björn
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