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bug#46934: emacsy-minimal fails to build
From: |
Xinglu Chen |
Subject: |
bug#46934: emacsy-minimal fails to build |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:36:57 +0100 |
On Fri, Mar 05 2021, Maxime Devos wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 22:37 +0100, Xinglu Chen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While trying to install Nomad, the emacsy-minimal packages fails to
>> build.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Since emacsy-minimal uses the gnu-build-system, I thought that
>> `autoreconf` would already be available in the build environment, no?
>
> gnu-build-system does not imply "autoconf" as a native-input.
> gnu-build-system refers to packages that have a "./configure && make
> && make check && make install" build system, these do not necessarily
> use autoconf and automake. And when they do, the generated
> Makefile.in and configure script are often included in the release
> tarball, in which case gnu-build-system does not try to call
> "autoreconf".
Thanks for the explanation!
> I propose the attached patch, which seems to let "emacsy-minimal" build
> (on top of commit 4bc9a1f4e3bd39302b4ceaab8589a2e6ef82c4bd in my case).
> I've also fixed a build input of nomad (wrong variant of gnutls). I can
> now start nomad!
Great, it works for me too. Would you mind sending the patch to the
guix-patches mailing list?