Re: compiling guix is too slow?

[Alex Vong]

"Feng Shu" <address@hidden> writes:

> Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow,
> I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ?

Maybe you can try building from git instead? I used to run
'$ guix pull && guix package --upgrade', but it gets slower as the
number of packages of guix increases. So now I use
'$ git pull && make -j`nproc` && ./pre-inst-env guix package --upgrade'.
You can read the manual[0] for more info.

If you use emacs-guix, you need to tell emacs-guix the location of your
git repository as well. I am unware of how others do it. Here is how I
do it:

  (require 'guix-autoloads)
  (guix-prettify-global-mode)
  (setq-default guix-current-profile
                (file-chase-links "~/.guix-profile" 1))
  (setq-default guix-directory "~/scm/guix/")

  (require 'guix-build-config)
  (let ((guix-src-dir (expand-file-name "~/scm/guix/")))
    (setq-default guix-config-image-directory guix-src-dir)
    (setq-default guix-config-guix-scheme-compiled-directory guix-src-dir))


[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Building-from-Git.html

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