Re: Name resolution failures during build

[Stephen Scheck]

The project I'm attempting to package is a standalone application, with a
Makefile build system entrypoint - it is not a library, so I don't think
`go-build-system` is of any help here (though presumably the Makefile uses
golang build machinery under the covers).

Do any examples of standalone applications written in Go that are already
packaged for Guix jump to mind?

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:34 PM Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:

>
> Stephen Scheck <singularsyntax@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Sure - I understand the reasoning - but this is an open-source project
> with
> > its own build system that I'm trying to package, and I believe its build
> > system depends on network access (it's Go-based, and my understanding is
> > that the Go dependency model relies on access to numerous external Git
> > repos). Is such a project unsupportable by Guix?
>
> Not at all, there's a number of examples of software written in Go
> packaged for Guix, it's just that you need to build it in a way that
> doesn't depend on network access.
>
> Keeping this as a hard requirement is one of the reasons why having Guix
> packages is beneficial. If some packages used the network during builds,
> you'd end up in the bad situation where packages would be far more
> likely to fail to build, now or in the future, and it would be harder to
> reason about build reproducibility (due to the interaction with the
> network).
> Message-ID: <87blfrk912.fsf@cbaines.net>
>