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<davexunit>I'm trying to write a package for a piece of software that has no configure script, only a makefile.

<davexunit>removing the configure phase from the gnu build system isn't enough to get the package to build as it still cannot find header files.

<civodul>hey davexunit

<civodul>when adding the package's dependencies as inputs, $CPATH and $LIBRARY_PATH get defined appropriately

<davexunit>the configure phase looks like it does some voodoo to get the correct library path.

<civodul>such that headers and libraries are found

<civodul>the configure phase doesn't do that

<civodul>it's done automatically before, in 'set-paths'

<davexunit>okay.

<davexunit>I misread, then. I don't really understand the code there.

<civodul>the 'configure' procedure in (guix build gnu-build-system) essentially computes the flags for ./configure

<civodul>like --prefix, --includedir, etc.

<davexunit>yeah

<davexunit>I think I found why the headers are not found, now to try to fix it.

<civodul>good, that was fast ;-)

<davexunit>I'm packaging a little game that uses SDL.

<davexunit>I didn't know this until now, but SDL ships a little utility called "sdl-config"

<civodul>ok

<davexunit>which is used to get libs and cflags

<civodul>and it wasn't found i suppose?

<davexunit>SDL was found, but *not* the extension libraries like SDL_image because they have their own directories.

<civodul>ok

<davexunit>not sure how this difference should be reconciled. sdl-config assumes that all SDL headers/libs live in the same directories.

<civodul>does sdl-config return "-L/.../include" or "-L/.../include/foo"?

<civodul>err, -I

<davexunit>-I/gnu/store/a0q06spsk7992b1zm50p185g2sjf1plf-sdl-1.2.15/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT

<civodul>ah, that's what i feared

<davexunit>yeah, SDL headers have their own special directory.

<civodul>CPATH is contains /...-sdl-image/include by default

<civodul>but not /...-sdl-image/include/SDL

<civodul>hence the problem

<davexunit>I see.

<civodul>one way would be to augment CPATH

<davexunit>I imagine there's a way to tweak things appropriately in this case.

<davexunit>civodul: got my package recipe working. took a few custom phases but I did it.

<davexunit>the project's makefile is very naive.

<davexunit>now, I can't run it to really tset because it throws an error that I have no audio device, so I guess I need to figure out how to make that work.

<civodul>davexunit: does it use SDL_audio?

<civodul>perhaps our SDL_audio package is misconfigured (like missed optional sound-support libs)

<davexunit>it uses SDL_mixer, yeah. I haven't set up anything related to audio for guix on this machine so I imagine that is the problem.

<davexunit>is there a way to build a package with debugging symbols?

<davexunit>I want to use gdb on a crashy program.

<civodul>davexunit: either #:strip-binaries? #f, or add a "debug" output

<civodul> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installing-Debugging-Files

<davexunit>oh, thanks. missed that.

<davexunit>well, off to an exciting interview. :)

<davexunit>I'll see if I can finish this package later. still figuring out the debugging symbols.

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