bug#40848: doc: chapter "Building from Git" in "Contributing" misses to list required packages

2020-04-25 Thread Stefan
missed to install it, then the "git verify-commit" prints some error messages with "error: cannot run gpg". And unfortunately gpg is not the package name to install to solve this error. It would be beneficial, if the two required packages git (or git-minimal?) and gnupg woul

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> > In my attempt to install guix from guix, I came upon the problem that >> > the libgcrypt headers require the libgpg-error headers. This is a >> > propagated input, so should in the futur

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > In my attempt to install guix from guix, I came upon the problem that > > the libgcrypt headers require the libgpg-error headers. This is a > > propagated input, so should in the future be installed automatically.

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> > OK. That’s “user-environment-propagated-inputs”. We could achieve >> > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs. >> > That’s probably the right thing to do anyway. >> Commit 4dede02 implem

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Now I get the following error: > Backtrace: > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 157: 5 [catch #t # ...] > In unknown file: >?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #] > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 63: 3 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] > In ice-9/eval.scm: > 421: 2 [eval # #] > In /home/privat/.guix-pro

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > In my attempt to install guix from guix, I came upon the problem that the > libgcrypt headers require the libgpg-error headers. This is a propagated > input, so should in the future be installed automatically. The future is actually yesterday. :-) > However, the next

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > > OK. That’s “user-environment-propagated-inputs”. We could achieve > > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs. > > That’s probably the right thing to do anyway. > Commit 4dede02 implements that. It apparently work

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Concerning more checking in configure.ac: The files included from nix require sqlite, it would be good to add a check for that. Now I get the following error: Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 5 [catch #t # ...] In unknown file: ?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 3 [call-with

Re: Required packages

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: \> > OK. That’s “user-environment-propagated-inputs”. We could achieve > > that by just changing guix-profile to install propagated inputs. > > That’s probably the right thing to do anyway. > > Commit 4dede02 implements that. Good initiativ

Re: Required packages

2013-02-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> Am Montag, 4. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >>> Andreas Enge skribis: >>> > A question related to my previous posting, but also of independent >>> > justification: Should we maybe implement somthing similar to the

Re: Required packages

2013-02-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > For GCC, the situation is more complicated, because GCC has a loose tie > to Binutils and libc. For instance, it happily takes whichever ‘ld’ > program is in $PATH. It’s more closely tied to libc, though, because we > explicitly patch its sp

Re: Required packages

2013-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Montag, 4. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> > A question related to my previous posting, but also of independent >> > justification: Should we maybe implement somthing similar to the >> > "depends" field of Debian packages? >> What’s th

Re: Required packages

2013-02-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > A question related to my previous posting, but also of independent > > justification: Should we maybe implement somthing similar to the > > "depends" field of Debian packages? > What’s this? When A "depends on" B in d

Re: Required packages

2013-02-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > A question related to my previous posting, but also of independent > justification: Should we maybe implement somthing similar to the "depends" > field of Debian packages? What’s this? > For instance, programming with mpc also requires mpfr and gmp; in fact, the > fir

Required packages

2013-02-04 Thread Andreas Enge
A question related to my previous posting, but also of independent justification: Should we maybe implement somthing similar to the "depends" field of Debian packages? For instance, programming with mpc also requires mpfr and gmp; in fact, the first few lines of mpc.h read #include "gmp.h"