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<phant0mas>patching files for double declarations,bypassing missing header files by puting them in the right place

<phant0mas>now No rule to make target errors

<phant0mas>I might need someting to keep me awake after all :P

<phant0mas>good morning guix

*Digit798 gets curious as to how easy or extensive it is to simply "drop-in" guix into an existing installed distro, whatever it might be, barebones busybox, or some more conventional os laden with already installed apps viaits own packagemanager

<civodul>Hello Guix!

<civodul>hey rigelk

<civodul>rigelk: how's everything going?

<rigelk>hi civodul ; i've been in exams last week, and I'm still coding on the GNUnet service.

<rigelk>civodul: going to vote for now ;)

<rigelk>i'll be back for tonight ; i have a roadmap to clarify if I recall

<phant0mas>hello civodul

<phant0mas>had some issues with double declarations of variables in glibc, which I pathed, some files were looking for the files in the wrong place

<phant0mas>I am actually reading the errors I get during building and I apply the coresponding patches:P

<phant0mas>patched*

<civodul>rigelk: ok :-)

<civodul>rigelk: let us know how it goes

<civodul>esp. in terms of experimentation with Guix and GNUnet

<civodul>phant0mas: if there are genuine glibc build issues, make sure to report them to bug-hurd

<civodul>by genuine, i mean that are likely not due to the build setup

<civodul>anyway, it seems you're making good progress :-)

<phant0mas>about the misplasements of the header files it may be something wrong in my side

<phant0mas>but about the double declaration I will report it

<phant0mas>I asked yestarday in #hurd but took no answer

<phant0mas>there were 2 declaration of sigset_t

<phant0mas>for now I commented the one out and it seems to work

<civodul>ok

<civodul>make sure to document build issues you have to paper around

<phant0mas>ok

<guest`>why there's 2 '("python" ,python-2)' in icecat's native-inputs field?

<civodul>hello guest`

<civodul>why not? :-)

<civodul>presumably Python 2 is needed at build time

<guest`>civodul: redundancy, or two times means it is REALLY needed?

<phant0mas>civodul: the amounts of patches used in debian and not present in upstream is unbelievable

<civodul>phant0mas: yes, that's a problem :-/

<civodul>guest`: the string "python" allows it to be refer from build-side code, whereas ,python-2 is a reference to the actual package definition for Python 2

<civodul>guest`: if you haven't already, see http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Defining-Packages and the other material available on the web page

<guest`>civodul: yes, but there's two lines like that

<civodul>oh?

<civodul>guest`: indeed, that's a mistake

<civodul>patch welcome :-)

<guest`>civodul: I can do that someday, I need to learn git :P

<phant0mas>civodul: I am starting to believe that the upstream cannot be built without the debian patches

<phant0mas>I am hand picking them now to see which ones we need

<civodul>phant0mas: that's very well possible, unfortunately

<civodul>when you have concrete data, we should email bug-hurd with the details

<phant0mas>ok, I am writing the issues on a paper so I can concetrate them

<phant0mas>concentrate*

<civodul>cool

*civodul makes good progress on signed substitutes

<zacts>what reliability features does dmd offer?

<civodul>zacts: what do you mean?

<civodul>hey, mark_weaver

<mark_weaver>greetings

<zacts>civodul: does dmd offer crash recovery of services, or even of the dmd program itself?

<civodul>zacts: well, like all init systems it tries to respawn services that fail, up to a limit

<civodul>if it crashes itself, you're screwed

<zacts>ok

<phant0mas>it's building!!

<phant0mas>waiting

<phant0mas>came that close...and I think it failed at linking

<phant0mas>not gonna stop now I am close

<phant0mas>:P

<civodul>yay

<phant0mas>civodul: I am too tired to continue today :P

<phant0mas>tomorrow I am gonna send an email to bug hurd to report the things I had to change and ask about the part that fails

<civodul>ok!

<civodul>make sure it's solid enough, so as to not bother them

<civodul>mark_weaver: comment on the signed substitutes thing welcome! :-)

<mark_weaver>civodul: I've been distracted for the last couple of days, but I'm glad to hear there's progress with that :)

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