Re: 01/02: gnu: Add emacs-ag.

[Alex Kost]

myglc2 (2017-04-06 13:06 -0400) wrote:

> On 01/18/2017 at 10:02 Alex Kost writes:
>
>> alezost pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit cf006d2e738f473e7fb630b566e04c4872fa204b
>> Author: Christopher Baines <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 17 20:07:06 2017 +0000
>
> Hi Alex & Christopher,
>
> I installed emacs-ag but was a bit disappointed there was no INFO. I see
> it can be built from ...
>
> /gnu/store/...emacs-ag-0.47/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/ag-0.47/docs
>
> ... using python-sphinx + texinfo. Is there any interest on your part(s)
> in adding INFO to the package?

No interest from me: I've never used 'emacs-ag' and am not going to do
it, sorry :-(

> If not, I was wondering how one might add
> it. Would it be something like ...
>
>     (native-inputs ;; so we can build INFO doc
>      `(("python-sphinx" ,python-sphinx)
>        ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
>
> ... plus fiddle with #:phases? Or is there a better way? TIA - George

It is probably the only way: one need to add a phase that would run
"makeinfo" (as it is done in 'haskell-mode' package, for example).
Though I have no idea how 'python-sphinx' should be used there.

-- 
Alex