Re: cl-gsll fails to load

[Guillaume Le Vaillant]

Foo Chuan Wei <chuanwei.foo@hotmail.com> skribis:

> I am using Guix on Ubuntu 20.04, and SBCL 2.1.9 (installed using `guix
> install sbcl`). I have installed cl-gsll (`guix install cl-gsll`), but
> `(asdf:load-system :gsll)` fails. Why?
>
> This is my ASDF configuration
>
> ;;;; File: ~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d/guix-asdf.conf
> (:tree "~/.guix-profile/share/common-lisp/")
>
>
> This is the error message when `(asdf:load-system :gsll)` fails:
>
> ; pkg-config libffi --cflags
> ; ERROR: Couldn't execute "pkg-config": No such file or directory
>
>
> ; Attempting to continue anyway.
> ; gcc -o 
> /home/fcw/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-2.1.9-linux-x64/gnu/store/5c2r9qg7krpnsqiia34jf6s8w71vgqsf-cl-cffi-0.24.1/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/libffi/libffi-types__grovel-tmpTASQCYAW.o
>  -c -g -Wall -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wpointer-arith -O3 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
> -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wunused-parameter 
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fPIC 
> -I/gnu/store/5c2r9qg7krpnsqiia34jf6s8w71vgqsf-cl-cffi-0.24.1/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/
>  
> /home/fcw/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-2.1.9-linux-x64/gnu/store/5c2r9qg7krpnsqiia34jf6s8w71vgqsf-cl-cffi-0.24.1/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/libffi/libffi-types__grovel.c
> While evaluating the form starting at line 21, column 0
>   of 
> #P"/gnu/store/q27bpjg4pcm81j9ij66fhdpvlwx3jdcz-cl-gsll-0.0.0-1.1a8ada2/share/common-lisp/source/cl-gsll/gsll.asd":
>
> debugger invoked on a ASDF/FIND-SYSTEM:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR in thread 
> #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10018587C3}>: Error while trying to load 
> definition for system gsll from pathname 
> /gnu/store/q27bpjg4pcm81j9ij66fhdpvlwx3jdcz-cl-gsll-0.0.0-1.1a8ada2/share/common-lisp/source/cl-gsll/gsll.asd:
>  Couldn't execute "gcc": No such file or directory
>
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
>
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>   0: [RETRY                        ] Retry #<PROCESS-OP > on #<GROVEL-FILE 
> "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi-types">.
>   1: [ACCEPT                       ] Continue, treating #<PROCESS-OP > on 
> #<GROVEL-FILE "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "libffi-types"> as having been 
> successful.
>   2: [RETRY                        ] Retry EVAL of current toplevel form.
>   3: [CONTINUE                     ] Ignore error and continue loading file 
> "/gnu/store/q27bpjg4pcm81j9ij66fhdpvlwx3jdcz-cl-gsll-0.0.0-1.1a8ada2/share/common-lisp/source/cl-gsll/gsll.asd".
>   4: [ABORT                        ] Abort loading file 
> "/gnu/store/q27bpjg4pcm81j9ij66fhdpvlwx3jdcz-cl-gsll-0.0.0-1.1a8ada2/share/common-lisp/source/cl-gsll/gsll.asd".
>   5:                                 Retry #<DEFINE-OP > on 
> #<UNDEFINED-SYSTEM "gsll">.
>   6:                                 Continue, treating #<DEFINE-OP > on 
> #<UNDEFINED-SYSTEM "gsll"> as having been successful.
>   7:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
>   8: [CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY] Retry ASDF operation after resetting the 
> configuration.
>   9:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
>  10:                                 Retry ASDF operation after resetting the 
> configuration.
>  11:                                 Exit debugger, returning to top level.
>
> ((FLET "H0" :IN ASDF/ACTION:PERFORM) #<CFFI-GROVEL:GROVEL-ERROR "~a" 
> {100B957A93}>)
> ; File has been modified since compilation:
> ;   SYS:CONTRIB;ASDF;ASDF.LISP.NEWEST
> ; Using form offset instead of character position.
>    error finding frame source: invalid feature expression: 
> "#.(UIOP/UTILITY:SYMBOL-TEST-TO-FEATURE-EXPRESSION (COMMON-LISP:QUOTE 
> #:COMPILER-ERROR-CONTEXT-%SOURCE) (COMMON-LISP:QUOTE #:SB-C))"
>    source: NIL
> 0]
>
> The problem does not appear when using sbcl-gsll instead of cl-gsll.
> How do I fix the problem when using cl-gsll? It seems to be missing some
> kind of input or native-input.

I think the problem comes from the fact that the build system for
cl-xxx packages doesn't use the custom phases added to some sbcl-xxx
packages (like the 'fix-cffi-paths' phase of sbcl-gsll). Instead a fixed
set of phases is used (see '%standard-phases/source' from
"guix/build/asdf-build-system.scm", used in the
'sbcl-package->cl-source-package' function from
"guix/build-system/asdf.scm").

Therefore cl-xxx packages usually contain upstream version of the code,
without Guix-specific fixes, and having the dependencies installed in
a traditional/FHS way is necessary to compile the code.
For example the following seems to work:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix shell -C sbcl cl-gsll gcc-toolchain libffi gsl -- sbcl --eval '(require 
:asdf)' --eval '(asdf:load-system "gsll")'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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