Hello Daniela,

Daniela Lura <danielalu...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 11.,
Sze 0:19):

> Hello,
>
> This is Danjela, an outreachy applicant and a second year computer science
> student.
> How is everyone doing?
>
Fine so far.
And you?

>
> I am trying to build the Guix Data Service project locally and it prompts
> me to install Guile-Squee. I tried to install Squee but I am running into
> other build problems when I run 'make'. Apparently it can't find libpq,
> which I checked and is downloaded.
> Here is the error message:
> ```
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:752:25: In procedure dispatch-exception:
> In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libpq", message: "file not found"
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:968: squee.go] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/daniela/Downloads/guile-squee'
> make: *** [Makefile:543: all-recursive] Error 1
>
> ```
>
I can't help with this particular issue right now, except that you can
check if it has a guix file inside that can be passed to guix build -f you
can try that.

> I really want to start making some meaningful contributions to the project
> but don't know where to start or what sources to use in order to do so.
> I have to note that I am not using Gnu/Guix, but I do have the Guix
> package manager installed as well as a Gnu/Linux distro. (OpenSuse
> Tumbleweed)
> Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated by my side.
>
You could try to package something for guix in the meanwhile, that is
always a great contribution. I believe you mentor will reach out to you
soon.

>
> Please don't hesitate to ask me further details if the description of the
> problem was to vague.
>
> Thank you,
>
Best regards,
g_bor

>

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