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<amirouche>This was the lazy way I could have reported the issue with ubuntu but well... <Steap>We're interested in __all__ the bugs <Steap>Do you know much about zile ? <Steap>4 tests are failing, someone has to look into that <amirouche>how is guix supposed to deal with multiple package versions ? <amirouche>I mean say I have guile-2.0.9 which not compatible with a guile-1.8.x <amirouche>then another package depends on guile but support both versions <amirouche>there should be a way to specify in the guix runtime which version is prefered to avoid pulling 1.8 for instance <amirouche>there two packages one for 1.8 and another for 2.0 <amirouche>also guix is kind of verbose with output that is not that useful <Steap>well, as you said, you can install multiple versions of a package (like gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7...) <Steap>what output doesn't seem helpful to you ? <amirouche>basicaly I know somehow that it's possible, at least in nixos it is, to configure the builds <amirouche>you can set a variable to true so that guix package -i take that into account to build the thing <amirouche>I fetched a guix-0.3 tarball and added a skribilo.scm in ./gnu/packages/ <amirouche>before getting the recipes "right" it seemed like ./pre-inst-env guix build skribilo --keep-failed <amirouche>but now it says : guix build: error: skribilo: unknown package <amirouche>what I'm doing wrong ? is there another way to create recipes ? maybe through overlays ? <Steap>so, first of all, you should really use the Git repository if you intend to hack on Guix <Steap>I think there's a syntax error or something in your recipe <Steap>which prevents guix from finding it <Steap>I get that error too sometimes, and it's not exactly clear <Steap>Could you apste your recipe, maybe ? <amirouche>I'm trying to build guix from git and I got the following error <amirouche>configure:7376: error: GNU libgcrypt does not appear to be usable; see `--with-libgcrypt-prefix' and `README'. <Steap>";;; gnu/packages/skribilo.scm:8:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `gpl3'" <Steap>you need to use the "guix licenses" module <Steap>yeah, you have to pass "--configure=/path/to/libgcrypt" to configure <Steap>I meant "--with-libgcrypt-prefix=/path/to/libgcrypt" <Steap>well, the autotools aren't exactly pure magic <Steap>if libgcrypt is not in a "standard" directory, it can't find it <Steap>I installed it with guix 0.1 (was a long time ago) <Steap>and then, I ran configure in the guix git repo with "--with-libgcrypt-prefix=/home/cyril/.guix-profile/" <amirouche>still strange because I installed libgcrypt with debian apt <Steap>might be worth looking into that too <Steap>amirouche: yes, the directory structure was a bit weird <amirouche>skribilo fails to compile in what I think to be a non trivial manner <Steap>Some guy had the same problem (not in Guix) <Steap>I think you need guile-lib in order to have htmlprag <Steap>guile-lib does not seem to be packaged in Guix <Steap>amirouche: how did you hear about Guix ?