[bug#59018] [PATCH 0/1] OAuth2 for mbsync

[Ludovic Courtès]

Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io> skribis:

> According to the Cyrus SASL quickstart guide:
>
> "Note that the library can use the environment variable SASL_PATH to
> locate the directory where the mechanisms are; this should be a
> colon-separated list of directories containing plugins."[1]
>
> Unfortunately I still do not know enough about Guix packaging to set
> this environment variable properly, nor do I know how to properly set
> the installation path in the package configuration.

We’d need to add a ‘native-search-paths’ field for “SASL_PATH” to
cyrus-sasl, as explained in the “Search Paths” section of the manual.
But that can come as a separate patch.

> From d5e9f604531dbf9cf7a16a107a3745d0203e1dd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-Id: 
> <d5e9f604531dbf9cf7a16a107a3745d0203e1dd7.1668524316.git.peter@polidoro.io>
> From: Peter Polidoro <peter@polidoro.io>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:50:51 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add cyrus-sasl-xoauth2.
>
> * gnu/packages/cyrus-sasl.scm (cyrus-sasl-xoauth2): New variable.

It fails to build:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `install'
make[1]: Entering directory 
'/tmp/guix-build-cyrus-sasl-xoauth2-0.2.drv-0/source'
 /gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/mkdir -p 
'/usr/lib/sasl2'
/gnu/store/d251rfgc9nm2clzffzhgiipdvfvzkvwi-coreutils-8.32/bin/mkdir: cannot 
create directory ‘/usr’: Permission denied
make[1]: *** [Makefile:418: install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Could you send an updated patch?  TIA!

Ludo’.