Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add scmutils.

[Federico Beffa]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> if you want to try the package in emacs, you must first unload
>> 'geiser' as there is some incompatibility between the latter and
>> 'xscheme' (from MIT-Scheme). The problem is fixed upstream (geiser).
>
> It looks like this package downloads a pre-compiled binary bundle
> containing both MIT/GNU Scheme and scmutils.  There's no compelling
> reason to do that here.  We already have a package for MIT/GNU scheme,
> so it should be possible to use that to compile this from source.  Let's
> do that instead please.

If you would look carefully at the recipe you would see that the
tarball distributes the source together with a binary distribution and
that my patch discards all pre-compiled bits, recompiles the sources
with the mit-scheme from guix and only installs those.

Regards,
Fede