Hello Leo As you may have seen I'm trying to complete the process of packaging FreeFileSync. As soon as this is hopefully done - or decidedly way above my current ability -, I'll come back to the Unison case, thanks to your enlightnening input. Thanks for that Arnaud
2018-04-02 22:16 GMT+02:00 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name>: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 02:10:22PM +0200, Arnaud B wrote: > > I looked at the ocaml.scm file where the unison package is defined, > > together with ocaml, lablgtk and a number of other related tools. It uses > > the gtk module (gnu packages gtk), in which there is pango as well. > > > So it seems everything is in place to build unison and at the same time > its > > graphical version, according to the build instructions > > <https://webdav.seas.upenn.edu/svn/unison/branches/2.48/src/INSTALL.gtk2 > > > > given for that. > > But in the end in my GuixSD as the user having done the installation, I > > just end up with the CLI unison and not unison-gtk2 as expected. > > I tried explicitly installing various packages such as gtk+, lablgtk, and > > then rebuilding the unison package, to no avail. > > Basically, the packages that are required to build the Unison GUI, such > as lablgtk, GTK+ itself, etc, are not present in the environment where > Unison is built by Guix. They may be defined in the same source file as > the Unison package, or they may be imported by that file, but this does > not mean they are present in the Unison build environment. Additionally, > installing a package with `guix package --install` has no effect on how > packages are built. > > Each time Guix builds a package, it uses an isolated environment that > only includes the software specified in the package definition of the > package being built, as well as "implicit" dependencies that come with > the specified build system. > > To make progress on building the Unison GUI, I recommend adding the > required packages to a new inputs field in the Unison package > definition. You can copy the structure of the native-inputs field for > this. > > I recommend reading the Introduction of the Guix manual [0], and > continuing to other sections as your interest allows. You will also find > some useful info in Package Reference [1]. > > Please don't hesitate to ask more questions here or on the Guix IRC > channel, #guix on Freenode. > > [0] > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Introduction.html > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/package-Reference.html >
