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<zacts>hi geeks

<rekado_>Has anyone started packaging some Java implementation?

<rekado_>(Is there a fully free version of Java?)

<rekado_>looks like we need IcedTea first to compile the OpenJDK sources with only free software

<rekado_>When I run git fetch origin master I get this error:

<rekado_>error: Unable to find fc2279d6287ad507cea9e45c43f2b0fa9cfc4c77 under http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

<rekado_>Does anyone else have this problem?

<alezost>rekado_: I've just tried "git pull" - no errors

<hoplaahei>hi. Is it possible to use proprietary nvidia driver with guix operating system?

<davexunit>hoplaahei: we only include free software in our distro.

<hoplaahei>does the guix distro have any hooks to generate grub menu entries that boot into rollbacks to older states?

<davexunit>hoplaahei: I believe it does that automatically

<hoplaahei>ok thanks for the help

<davexunit>hoplaahei: yw

<tadni_>hoplaahei: Yeah, that's an automatic feature in the shipped version of Grub.

<tadni_>Defaults to the current entry, but you just press down once and it takes you to a listing of all rollbacks available. Also I believe it gives you the date of each rollback iirc.

<jxself>It's a time machine! ;)

<tadni_>jxself: It's pretty useful. I fogot what I did with my services via dmd ... but I borked my system to be able to not get the kernel to crash.

<tadni_>Was able to rollback and figure it out.

*tadni_ goes to grab lunch, will bbl. o/

<rekado>I'm trying to build GCJ. GCC contains a file needed by GCJ that has a Python shebang, but Python depends on GCC. Is this dependency a problem?

<rekado>GCJ is a part of GCC, but it is not the part that Python depends on.

<bavier>rekado: are you trying to enable gcj in the gcc-4.8 package, or adding it as a new package?

<rekado>I modified custom-gcc and use that to define gcj as a new package.

<rekado>When I add (gnu packages python) to the GCC module it compiles fine but when I want to build any packgae in the GCC module guix says "unknown package".

<rekado>it = the GCC module

<rekado>I succeeded in compiling GCJ already, but in the output there were a few warnings about python used in scripts.

<bavier>This module dependency topic came up on the ML a few days ago.

<rekado>(Same goes for perl, actually, but I'm not sure if the perl scripts are used to build GCJ)

<bavier>I'm not an expert on guile module loading though, mark_weaver would probably be able to say more

<rekado>I wonder if it hurts to leave python off the input list if everything compiles just fine.

<rekado>I guess I'll figure out once I package IcedTea which needs GCJ.

<rekado>There also are warnings like this: "no binary for interpreter `@SHELL@' found in $PATH"

<rekado>they are related to .in files, which I suppose are templates expanded at configure time.

<bavier>yes, those warnings for .in files are harmless

<rekado>good.

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