Re: Compile guix from git?

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <address@hidden> skribis:

> How do people compile guix directly from git source? I've been
> searching around in HACKING and manual.html#Contributing and other
> places, the internet in general, and haven't been able to find any
> instructions.
>
> It ought to be:
>
> 1. Get dependencies manually or with 'guix environment guix'.
> 2. aclocal
> 3. automake, maybe automake -a
> 4. autoconf
> 5. configure --sharedstatedir=/var --with-libgcrypt-prefix=wherever
> 6. make

Replace #2, #3, and #4 with just “autoreconf -vfi”.

For #5, you probably mean --localstatedir, not --sharedstatedir.

> But #3 fails. nix/config.h.in is missing, maybe other things too but
> that's where it halts.

Don’t worry, ‘autoreconf’ will do the right thing.  :-)

Alternately, you can also do:

  guix build guix --with-source=/path/to/guix

where the last component of /path/to/guix is literally ‘guix’, and where
/path/to/guix contains a possibly pristine checkout.  But of course,
that command builds from scratch, which may not be what you want.

HTH!

Ludo’.