Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 18:24, Hiep Pham <hiep...@proton.me> wrote:
> I want to bump `jsonnet` version from 0.17.0 to 0.20.0 from the master > branch of the `guix` repository. I edited the version in > `gnu/packages/cpp.scm`: > > (define-public jsonnet > (package > (name "jsonnet") > (version "0.20.0") > [snip] > )) > > *How do I test building/installing this change locally?* > Here what I tried so far: > > 1. Standing at the root of the `guix` repository, build with: > > guix build -L . jsonnet > > This failed: What is the content of the folder ’.’? I guess the command above “guix build -L .” is run from the Guix checkout, right? If yes, the failure is expected. Here, you are loading too much and conflicting definitions. > 2. Followed the contributing guide [1], I created a shell instead: > > guix shell -C -D guix git help2man strace > ./bootstrap > ./configure --localstatedir=/var > > This generated `pre-inst-env`, but `make` step failed with: > > ``` > MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info > contributing.de.texi:1659: @menu reference to nonexistent node > `Configuring Git' > contributing.de.texi:1660: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Sending > a Patch Series' > make[2]: *** [Makefile:5003: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1 > ``` Before running “guix shell”, what is your revision of Guix? What is the output of “guix describe”? Well, I recommend to run first “guix pull”. Then, if the error still happens, maybe try “make distclean” before running “./bootstrap”, “./configure” and “make”. Hope that helps, simon
