Re: Installing a custom package on Guix binary setup

[Vicente Vera]

Wow, thanks! It worked fine. Instead of Emacs I built a modified R
package, without texlive and icedtea6. After defining the
GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH variable I moved there "my-R.scm", which included:

(define-module (my-r)
  #:use-module ...) ; same as in statistics.scm

(define-public my-r
  (package
   ...)) ; commenting out the unwanted inputs

Then ran 'guix package -i my-r'. Some substitutes were downloaded (I
guess that's not always safe/recommended?), R 3.2.2 got compiled and
that's it!

Now I can call R from the outside (i.e. Emacs and ESS). It complains
about some undefined locales but I'll check that later.


2015-08-31 17:15 GMT-03:00 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
> Vicente Vera <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> How can I install a customized .scm package definition?
>>
>> For example, I want to pass some configure flags to Emacs (such as
>> '#:configure-flags '("--without-dbus" ...)'). I copied
>> /gnu/store/dbf9i96ac2pbyaibg591bx90a8zhvngc-guix-latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
>> somewhere else, did some editing, but now I'm not sure what to do with
>> it.
>
> You’re on the right track. ;-)  Just drop that file somewhere and add
> that somewhere to the ‘GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH’ environment variable:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.