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I got stuck installing "git clone https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git.git". In which directory is this supposed to be cloned and installed?

Michael
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  • It will clone wherever you run the command. Where do you want it? – sorak Mar 13 '18 at 18:12
  • Ok, thank you. "Guile-git" is a prerequisite to install the guix package, and thus, it has to go somewhere into a system wide folder, e.g. /usr/bin. However, "guile-git" contains a vast number of files and subdirectories and no furhter instruction how to install "guile-git" after cloning it onto my system. How to go from there? – Michael Mar 14 '18 at 10:35

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Dunno if you're still looking for an answer but it doesn't seem you need this installed to install guix; the read-me of the repository says that you can install it via guix. guix is an agnostic package manager that you can install on any Linux distribution alongside the default package manager and guix is the default package manager of the GuixSD operating system (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/).

If you're on a distro which doesn't use guix, you may not want to install guix (I've yet to find reason enough to, yet); if you use a lot of GNU tools or Guile (some Guile packages are available through guix), you may want to.

Most repositories that don't have a binary for you to run follow the build process of configure, make, and [sudo ]make install.

I cloned the repository, myself, and find that this one does, as well.

Get a terminal (if you haven't been using one, yet) and cd into the directory you cloned the repository to and then cd into the guile-git directory (cd guile-git).

If we do ls -l, we'll see that the only executable file there is the bootstrap one; I've never seen one before but doing ./bootstrap generates the configure file and sets up the make process for us. So now back in familiar territory.

Given these are Guile files, we'll probably want to install this under the same prefix as where Guile is installed so run which guile. I believe, if you install it under Ubuntu (I'm running Linux Mint), it'll install to /usr/bin/ but, if you install it manually, it'll install to /usr/local/bin/.

The latter is where mine is and that's the default prefix that configure uses so I can just do ./configure; if you wanted to install it under /usr/, run /.configure --prefix=/usr/.

This'll verify that all of the necessary libraries and programs that guile-git needs are installed and properly setup. Heads up that configure balked at me over not having the Guile module bytestructures installed (https://github.com/TaylanUB/scheme-bytestructures) so you may need to do that.

I'm not going to run through everything to get it installed but, once you can run it without any errors, run make to build it within the directory.

If you want to install it permanently on your computer with the rest of your operating system able to detect it, run make install. Since you'll likely've specified a directory under /usr, you'll have to do sudo make install so that the make process can have permissions to install under /usr/local or /usr.

Sorry if I reiterated anything you already knew; 'just didn't want to assume you knew something and result in confusion.

Jaft
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