Should ‘./configure’ fail when makeinfo is missing?

2013-09-06 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
Should ‘./configure’ check for makeinfo? ‘make’ will fail when makeinfo isn’t installed. pgp6b8ytEaZGE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MIPS64/N64 support

2013-09-06 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
>> Can I download the bootstrap tarballs from the web interface of Hydra? > Why not do ‘guix build bootstrap-tarballs -s x86_64-linux --target=...’? When I tested the previous set of binaries (see the mips64el branch), it was necessary to adjust ‘%url-base’ in ‘build-aux/download.scm’. It seems

Re: Naming scheme for Python packages

2013-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:00:27PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > BTW, I haven’t check whether this is the case already, but we need > something like > (define (package-with-explicit-python p python) > ;; Return a version of P built for PYTHON. > (package (inherit p) ...)) > so we can ju

Add Mercurial to version-control.scm

2013-09-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Here’s a patch to add Mercurial as package: --- /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/gnu/packages/version-control.scm 2013-09-04 16:27:21.495618474 +0200 +++ /home/arne/version-control.scm 2013-09-06 11:13:57.080871243 +0200 @@ -64,6 +64,26 @@ from a command line or use a GUI applicatio

Re: ‘--no-substitutes’ is ignored on i686

2013-09-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> • Guix must be usable with the old Guile 2.0.5, since that’s what some >> distros provide. At the GHM I realized that some people had weird >> bugs with that Guile, notably in the substituter. I fixed a couple >> of bugs, but there may be others around. > >>

Re: MIPS64/N64 support

2013-09-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> Oh indeed, using ‘-s’ was a good idea. Note that ‘guix build >> bootstrap-tarballs’ is even faster to type. > > Thanks. > >>> Which Guile do I need? The stripped one, right? > >> The one that’s in the output of ‘guix build bootstrap-tarballs’ (I >> forgot the name.

‘--no-substitutes’ is ignored on i686 (was: Goals for 0.4)

2013-09-06 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> • Guix must be usable with the old Guile 2.0.5, since that’s what some > distros provide. At the GHM I realized that some people had weird > bugs with that Guile, notably in the substituter. I fixed a couple > of bugs, but there may be others around. > So, to 2.0.5 users: please run ‘m

Re: MIPS64/N64 support

2013-09-06 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Oh indeed, using ‘-s’ was a good idea. Note that ‘guix build > bootstrap-tarballs’ is even faster to type. Thanks. >> Which Guile do I need? The stripped one, right? > The one that’s in the output of ‘guix build bootstrap-tarballs’ (I > forgot the name.) Yep, the stripped one. Can I downlo