Where we document how the Guix build system for Erlang has been implemented.
The goal is to set up a Guix build system for Erlang packages. This will be achieved if we can take any correct Guix package definition for a package from Hex and install it using guix install rebar3-pkg.
So far, we did not find a package that does not build.
A definition of the package is:
(use-modules (guix packages)
(guix download)
(guix build-system rebar)
((guix licenses) #:prefix license:))
(package
(name "erlang-telemetry")
(version "1.2.1")
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (hexpm-uri "telemetry" version))
(sha256
(base32 "1mgyx9zw92g6w8fp9pblm3b0bghwxwwcbslrixq23ipzisfwxnfs"))))
(build-system rebar-build-system)
(synopsis "Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations")
(description
"Dynamic dispatching library for metrics and instrumentations.")
(home-page "https://hexdocs.pm/telemetry/")
(license license:asl2.0))
To build this definition, we followed these steps:
guix import hexpm telemetry > telemetry-package.scm- Try to build using
guix build -K -f telemetry-package.scm
- While the build fails:
- Add the various suggestions i.e.
(use-modules (guix packages))
- When a symbol is undefined, search it in the Guix source tree i.e.
rg -F 'license:asl2.0' ~/src/guix
$ guix build -K -f telemetry-package.scm
# …
successfully built /gnu/store/…-erlang-telemetry-1.2.1.drv
/gnu/store/…-erlang-telemetry-1.2.1
