Re: Appimage: cannot run binary file

[raingloom]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:43:24 +0100
Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur@fsfe.org> wrote:

> Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 15:12 +0100, Sergiu Ivanov a écrit :
> > Hi Christophe,  
> > > I don't understand all the nuances of this discussion (I'm sorry),
> > > butit seems to me that the problem is, in the case of the
> > > developmentversion of freecad, that the sources are not published
> > > regularly. Thesources were last published in 2019 (1), while
> > > freecad offers anAppimage almost every week. So building something
> > > from the sources ofthe development code doesn't add much value to
> > > the stable version. Imust certainly be missing something, so once
> > > again sorry.Christophe(1) 
> > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre: "
> > > Note:The development binaries are built regularly (You may need to
> > > expandthe assets tab) . The release date indicates the beginning
> > > of the devcycle. The commits indicates how many commits in the dev
> > > cycle. Thesource archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so
> > > they match thecommit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore
> > > obsolete. You can get thelatest source here: 
> > > https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/archive/master.zip";  
> > 
> > I don't know or use FreeCAD, but it looks like the source code
> > isupdated quite regularly on their GitHub repository:
> >   https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/
> > 
> > The latest changes seem to date back to several hours.
> > I'd say these are the sources from which the development binaries
> > arebuilt (at least this is what is usually done).
> > My understanding of the sentence  
> > > The source archives (tar.gz and .zip) do not get updated, so
> > > theymatch the commit of the tag (34a083b) and are therefore
> > > obsolete.  
> > 
> > is that the FreeCAD team don't bother archiving the sources
> > bythemselves, given that one can always access the latest versionon
> > GitHub.
> > -Sergiu  
> 
> Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the explanation. 
> Christophe

My bad, I didn't consider that not everyone knows Git.
This is probably the example you need:
guix build freecad --with-git-url=freecad=https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/
No need to download any tarballs this way.