Re: Setting up guix source tree for testing a package

[Fredrik Salomonsson]

Hi Zelphir,

Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> writes:

> This definitely is helpful!

Glad I could be of some help :).

> I'm sorry for the delay in responding. Thank you for your efforts!

No worries.

> I hit other errors when leaving away the --pure and I have the suspicion, that
> gnu-build-system requires me to have a configure script in the git tree of my
> repository, which I did not know before I saw it failing with a 127 error on
> calling a configure script, which is/was not commited in my repository. I will
> probably have to revise a section somewhere in my guile-hall packaging guide, 
> to
> note, that one should add the configure script, even though it is generated 
> by hall.

Hmm, the bootstrap phase in gnu-build-system should invoke
`autoreconf -vif` if the package contains either a `configure.ac` or
`configure.in` and does not contain a `bootstrap`, `bootstrap.sh` or
`autogen.sh`. At least that what I get from reading the source:
gnu-build-system.scm:203 [0]

[0] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm

I also ran it on one of my projects that are using guile-hall, which
does not have a configure script and it build it just fine.

Maybe you have one of those bootstrap scripts that does not generate a
configure script?

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