Re: Subdirectories in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH

2017-07-05 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-07-03 23:53 +0200) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2017-06-30 11:35 +0200) wrote: > > [...] >> I have a (probably not related) question though: in the past, package >> 'location' contained an *absolute* file name for the packages from >> GUIX_

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-05 Thread Alex Kost
Alex Vong (2017-07-04 16:16 +0800) wrote: [...] > Is there an intermediate approch? Is is possible for Emacs to signal a > warning when the required features are not found, but still continue > loading the rest of the config? If you wish to have a message in *Messages* buffer, you can do it like

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-07-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Here's an update :) >> Installer: >> - Currently, the installer invokes the parted executable for partitioning >> which is quite jarring (it looks very different). It would be nice if it >> just used the parted library. >>But there's no good guile-parted yet. I've started hacking on one and i

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-05 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Kost writes: > Alex Vong (2017-07-04 16:16 +0800) wrote: > > [...] >> Is there an intermediate approch? Is is possible for Emacs to signal a >> warning when the required features are not found, but still continue >> loading the rest of the config? > > If you wish to have a message in *Messag

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, > * Left-clicking on buttons, entries, etc. had no effect. I expected it > to be equivalent to pressing enter or space. I've implemented this for most things now (except for the status bar at the bottom). > * Left-clicking leaves the clicked square (i.e., row+column > intersection) hig

Re: FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

2017-07-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> I've seen some members of Guix express doubts about the utility of >> private discussion forums like linux-distros, and I'm sympathetic. >> >> In fact, even without early notification, we are usually shipping >> security updates

Re: Binding generator, for Guile, to C libraries

2017-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Okay, I've cleaned up what I have and put it on github, under: > > https://github.com/daym/guile-gcc-unit > > What this does is it allows you to read gcc output files which specify all > the prototypes - in our case in order to extract the prototypes and ge

A question about 'guix build -f'

2017-07-05 Thread Feng Shu
I want to build emacs-exwm-x in my guix-git repo with the following command: guix build emacs-exwm-x -f /home/feng/project/guix/gnu/packages/emacs.scm But it seem to do nothing, any suggestion? by the way, pre-inst-env is not suit my need, I just want to hack a small package -> rebase it to

Re: 06/08: gnu: python-pyopenssl: Update to 17.1.0.

2017-07-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Marius, mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) writes: > mbakke pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 96bbc41f8be5e6bb8483f5ce596db47be271e9e8 > Author: Marius Bakke > Date: Sat Jul 1 21:14:30 2017 +0200 > > gnu: python-pyopenssl: Update to 17.1.0. This new versi

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-05 Thread Chris Marusich
"Feng Shu" writes: > Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow, > I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ? 3 hours is longer than it usually takes on my Lenovo X200 laptop with 2 cores, an SSD, and 8 GB of RAM. Usually, for me, it seems to take about 15 minutes. I once