Re: 01/01: services: Add SRFI-26 to Nix activation gexp.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> (srfi srfi-26) must not be added to the imported modules: it 
> would
> import it from the host Guile, but the host Guile version may 
> differ
> between users

I looked at ‘G-Expressions’ in the manual before but I didn't see 
this documented.  Did I miss it, or is this tribal knowledge?

Assuming there's at least a probably-good and definitely-bad set 
of modules that should(n't) be imported this way: can we at least 
print a warning when a non-(guix) module is listed, or whatever 
the rule would be?

> , and thus the resulting derivation would also differ.

Just to make sure I follow, it's obviously wrong it both cases: 
this would only be exposed if Guile's CUT suddenly changed its 
*behaviour* in a visible (and likely very unintentional) way, 
right?  Or does with-imported-modules pull in (and hash) the 
actual object code (/closure)?

> The right thing is to just (use-modules (srfi srfi-26)), which 
> has the
> effect of using that module from the Guile being used for 
> builds.
>
> Could you adjust it accordingly?

Please take a second to check whether 79d19d7d does what you 
meant.

> Thanks, and thanks for the bug fix!

Thank you for answering my many questions,

T G-R

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