Re: Extend channel-build-system?

2025-01-06 Thread Nicolas Graves
On 2025-01-06 21:18, Suhail Singh wrote: > Nicolas Graves writes: > >> This is because the current channel-builds-system is only able to >> build a guix channel, rather than any channel. > > Perhaps this is obvious to others, but for the benefit of others (such > as myself), could you please shar

Re: Extend channel-build-system?

2025-01-06 Thread Suhail Singh
Nicolas Graves writes: > This is because the current channel-builds-system is only able to > build a guix channel, rather than any channel. Perhaps this is obvious to others, but for the benefit of others (such as myself), could you please share some specifics? -- Suhail

Extend channel-build-system?

2025-01-06 Thread Nicolas Graves
Hi Guix, I am struggling to build a channel with properly defined metadata and/or proper dependencies. This is because the current channel-builds-system is only able to build a guix channel, rather than any channel. Also, the error reporting is not great when trying to build another channel: `

Re: On a Guile-based Build-Tool complimenting Guix

2025-01-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.01.25 um 11:06 schrieb Skyler Ferris via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: A Guix-aware build system could improve upon the traditional timestamp-based rebuilding heuristic by using a content address heursitic This is what Scons and waf do since their very beginni

Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?

2025-01-06 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 22:34, Jeremy Bryant wrote: > The GNU Project's documentation format is Texinfo. > How about distributing some or many Texinfo manuals through Guix, is > this something that is consistent with previous norms in Guix? > > Following a discussion on emacs-devel, several p

Globally configure Guile compiler optimization? (was: Re: Guile debugger workgroup?)

2025-01-06 Thread 45mg
Hi Guix, Attila Lendvai writes: > i'm sure there's a way to globally override the > debug/optimization/inlining level in guile to make sure the code > compiles in a way that no breakpoints are missed (and/or backtraces > remain more intact, etc). > > this should also be added to the documentatio