Re: Symlink: permission denied

2013-05-16 Thread Chris Dale
> > > /usr/local/var/nix/profiles/per-user/captain should be owned, readable, > and writable by ‘captain’. Could you check whether this is the case? I can check, and, wouldn't you know it, that folder is owned by root!

Symlink: permission denied

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Dale
bstituter bug, and it went swimmingly --- many binaries were substituted until this one happened. As is expected, when I reran the install, it errored right away on this one. I thus reproduced the more concise output. x86_64 arch, guile 2.0.9, localstatedir /usr/local/var Thanks! [Chris] Dale

Substituter not working in .2

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Dale
3xh7h6m7myagfdwvdj-hello-2.8.drv' failed; try `--fallback' 249 operations On arch x86_64, with guile 2.0.9, with localstatedir set to /usr/local/var Thanks! [Chris] Dale

Linker error on gcc build

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Dale
t; on a fresh new guix 0.2 Thank you in advance! [Chris] Dale

GSoC Proposal

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Dale
Hello Guix community! Linked here is Summer of Code proposal document, for your perusal https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/captainlexington/1 Thank you! [Chris] Dale

Re: Guix as GSOC Project

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Dale
> It's still asking for Guile-2.0 , the binaries i have in /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin have versions 2.1.0. Hello Ashish! I had this problem too. The easiest fix is to install the guile2 package from the AUR.

Re: Linker error on installing gcc

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Dale
> Something starting with “error:”, I guess. > > The only thing with in an error in that part of the message is the one that says collect2: error: ld returned with exit status 1,the really generic gcc linker error. > The actual directory name depends on your --localstatedir or --prefix > option p

Re: Linker error on installing gcc

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Dale
ary/cache? > I have no directory /nix/var at all - just /nix/store. That may be related! Thanks for your help! [Chris] Dale

Linker error on installing gcc

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Dale
dencies couldn't be built error: build failed: build of `/nix/store/7b51j955338q2kxj3ssvly0i2pw20z7q-hello-2.8.drv' failed 1442 operations x86_64 architecture installing gcc as a dependency guix package -i hello GUILE v2.1.0 GUIX branch master, v.2 Thanks! [Chris] Dale

Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Dale
> We listed desktop environments (DEs), which is a different beast. For > instance, packaging a tiny WM is as simple as this: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=core-updates&id=c5c555b186a894e6bd3d5709c5199fcab1f0b7d0 Ah yes, my mistake. > Conversely, adding GNOME means pack

Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Dale
> We’d just need to come up with a more precise task list, I suppose. :-) > I can’t really offer to mentor work on Guile-SCSH or on a WM, unless > there’s specific integration work with Guix. > > WDYT? > > That's the question I had, that Nikita brought to the forefront. What would be the precise

Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Dale
h user I always think of shells before window managers :D My ideal project result would be a bootable distro that I can configure and interact with in Guile Scheme. If it had a wm, that'd be the icing on the cake (as wms always are! :P). Thoughts? Thanks so much! [Chris] Dale On Th

Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Dale
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Brandon Invergo wrote: > > Check out nwm: > https://github.com/nizmic/nwm > > It's written in XCB and uses Guile. I don't know how complete it is > yet, though. I haven't had much time to play around with it but it seems > to be generally working. It has a REPL and

Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Dale
> (I guess that you should ask Andreas about the state > of X-related things.) > Will do! > On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that most people use non-tiling WMs > and maybe we should think about them first. But I don't really think > that it's a right time for that. Because the distro isn't

Google Summer of Code project concepts

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Dale
r all of your input! [Chris] Dale