Ben and Ludovic, thank you
2016-05-16 0:45 GMT+02:00 Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au>: > Hi there, > > On 16/05/16 06:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >> after having successfully packaged (locally) the Zenburn theme and >>> Smartparens, I am preparing the package for clojure-mode >>> >>> But for the first time it happens that the downloaded source code is not >>> tarred so tar fails and so does the unpack phase. >>> >>> How do I instruct the origin object not to attempt untarring my source ? >>> >> It’s OK if the ‘origin’ denotes a file that is not a tarball. >> >> However, the build procedure will have to pay attention for that. For >> instance, the default sequence of phases of ‘gnu-build-system’ includes >> an ‘unpack’ phase, which is inappropriate here: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Systems.html >> >> There are a couple of examples, e.g., paredit in emacs.scm. Most of >> them use ‘trivial-build-system’, which requires explicitly writing the >> build/install operations. >> > Ludo, in fact, for my Zenburn theme package, I copied the build code from the paredit package. But then I noticed that other Emacs modules used the Emacs build system instead of the trivial one. > If it is a single file then I believe it is as simple as deleting the > unpack phase e.g. fasttree in bioinformatics.scm, I had thought it was > still good practice not to use the trivial build system where possible as > it omits some useful defaults. > That's what I thought too. If there's a build system made on purpose for Emacs modules, then that's the right module for me. Now, Ben, I copied from the fasttree package for my clojure mode and this is the relevant bit (build-system emacs-build-system) (inputs `(("emacs" ,emacs-no-x))) (arguments `(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases (delete 'unpack)))) Now the build succeeds but 2 weird thing happen: 1. in .guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/ there's a clojure mode autoloads file but there's NO clojure-mode file ! So I would say that the build wasn't so successful ! 2. During the build lots of packages were downloaded, including Emacs. But I explicitly indicated emacs-no-x in the recipe. This didn't happen with Smartparens (that also used the Emacs build system). It's as if modifying the standard phases messed up the build process Now, I could easily welcome Ludo's suggestion to use the trivial build system as I did with the Zenburn theme But I'd like to understand. If there's anyone wiling to inspect my clojure-mode recipe, I can paste it on pastebin or somewhere else.
