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bug#64509: Guile packages should install versioned aliases for binaries
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From: |
Zack Weinberg |
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Subject: |
bug#64509: Guile packages should install versioned aliases for binaries (guile-X.Y, guild-X.Y, etc.) |
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Date: |
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:09:21 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-624-g7714e4406d-fm-20230801.001-g7714e440 |
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, at 5:33 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The Guile packages currently install all their binaries under their
>> basic name only, e.g.
...
>> This is a problem for building Guix
>> itself from source in a non-pure ‘guix shell -D guix’ on top of a
>> foreign distro that provides a ‘guile-3.0’ binary but not the other
>> four programs:
>
> I think the solution is to use ‘guix shell -D guix -CP’: that’ll give
> you a container, where /usr/bin/guile-3.0 isn’t accessible, which
> ensures there’s no interference.
I can't use container mode (or pure mode), because there's another
layer in the way: I'm using <https://github.com/purcell/envrc> to
pull settings out of `guix shell` and poke them into Emacs. This
inherently only supports non-pure operation.
zw