Re: [PATCH] gnu: add vte-ng

[Alex Kost]

Mckinley Olsen (2016-04-09 21:10 +0300) wrote:

> Sorry, I'm new to mailing lists; hope this gets to the right place

Oops, it wasn't Cc-ed to guix-devel list, but since I'm replying, the
others will see it anyway.

> I used the git checkout, as I started writing termite's package first
> and realized it needed a recursive checkout; of course I copied over
> that implementation to here. Thanks for the suggestion to use the
> tarball, I've made that change
>
> I used the version I did because I was using the package definition
> in Nix as a guideline. I've worked through packaging a slightly more
> up-to-date version (submitted patch to update pcre2 to required
> version), but am stuck on getting versions 0.43.91 and newer packaged
> due to an error (vteconv.cc:774:40: error: missing sentinel in
> function call [-Werror=format=]), which I believe was caused by this
> change: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762863
>
> I'm quite new to the gnu build system, so it has taken me some time
>
> Sorry I haven't been able to get the newest packaged up. I've just
> found that the gnome-updates branch contains some code working
> through the exact error I'm seeing with vte-ng, so I might reach out
> for them or wait for it to be merged.

Ah, I think it's ok to wait for gnome-updates merge.  Thanks for working
on the new packages!

-- 
Alex