Re: Guix package steps

[Mark H Weaver]

Daniel Pimentel <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried create new packages (ipcalc, nmap, xfburn and others) but
> without success.
>
> My steps (based on talk GNU Guix packaging by Andreas Enge):
> 0. Git clone guix repository by savannah;
> 1. Copy gnu/package/indent.scm to mypackage.scm in this same folder;
> 2. Add module to gnu-system.am
> 3. Download mypackage;
> 4. Edit mypackage.scm and add hash, license and other information;
> 5. ./pre-inst-env guix build mypackage -K
> 6. Erro: bash: ./pre-inst-env: No such file or directory
>
> But there is pre-inst-env.in only. The script pre-inst-env not exist
> in repository. So where is pre-inst-env?

You have to build guix before you can run it.  See
doc/contributing.texi, especially the "Building from Git" section.
Also, you should pass --localstatedir=/var to ./configure.

     Mark