Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread Jim Newsome
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 5:47 PM, John Kehayias wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 05:39 PM, Jim Newsome wrote: > > > Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and > > don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly.

re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-16 Thread Jim Newsome
Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser Bundle] running with: ``

Re: Reference a store path of an input?

2021-12-18 Thread Jim Newsome
On 12/17/21 2:40 AM, Guillaume Le Vaillant wrote: I think you're looking for the 'search-input-directory' or 'search-input-file' function. There is some info about them in [1]. [1] https://guix.gnu.org/fr/blog/2021/the-big-change/ After reading the blog post I ended up using `$#glib`, but I s

Re: Reference a store path of an input?

2021-12-18 Thread Jim Newsome
On 12/17/21 2:41 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: You may want to read about G-Expressions in Guix manual. Yup, I see a lot of the details I was having trouble finding are in 8.8 Derivations and 8.10 G-Expressions. See also for addition insig

Reference a store path of an input?

2021-12-16 Thread Jim Newsome
I'm just getting started experimenting with guix and guile, so I'm likely missing something obvious. I'm trying to write a package definition for some software that builds with cmake and uses glib. The software searches some paths explicitly to find the glib headers etc; it should be fixed to