Re: Why doesn't Guix build static libraries?

2021-10-31 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tim, Tim Lee 写道: I noticed that many C and C++ libraries in Guix are built with the --disable-static option. Why are static libraries excluded from Guix? I'll speak for myself: I remove static .a libraries whenever they're not obviously required by other software in Guix. If another packag

Re: Why doesn't Guix build static libraries?

2021-10-31 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:48:19 +0100 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > My worry is that leaving .a files around will cause some build > systems to silently prefer them to the .so and link statically. I > can't remember the name of the packages, but this does happen. Could it also do that when the st

Re: Why doesn't Guix build static libraries?

2021-10-31 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 写道: Could it also do that when the static libraries are split in their own package/derivation like openssl:static for instance? Nope. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty

2021-10-31 Thread Mekeor Melire
I should also note that the reason, why I use `xinit` is that I did not want to run Xorg as root but rather as user. That's why I didn't add Xorg to my system services. Instead, I start Xorg using the below-mentioned xinit-command as user. 2021-10-30 / 19:35 / mek...@posteo.de: > Oops, I gotta co

Re: Incorrect display of system fonts after guix system reconfigure (2021_10_29)

2021-10-31 Thread Christophe Pisteur
Le samedi 30 octobre 2021 à 13:06 +, phodina a écrit : > Hi Christophe, > > have you tried to run > > fc-cache -f > > to update the font cache to solve the issue? > > Petr Thank you very much. This solved the problem inside my session, but: - not in the gdm login screen, which still show

Re: U-Boot for Raspberry Pi

2021-10-31 Thread Stefan
Hi! There is already a patch series available since May – patiently awaiting a review –, which brings support for the Raspberry Pi. It even supports booting via NFS, which helps to avoid all the common troubles with microSD cards. For the usual mircoSD card installation just partition and form

Re: Guix home on foreign distribution

2021-10-31 Thread Pascal Lorenz
My documentation still seems to be out of date after running guix pull and guix system reconfigure. I opened the doc with info guix. Am I missing a step? > On 19. Oct 2021, at 15:57, Oleg Pykhalov wrote: > > Roland Everaert writes: > >> The documentation says otherwise. according to it, it ca