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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Erik Grun <egnun@mailbox.org>,
	 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 19:46:42 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <638935944.1950668.1685303202544@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfbg5tbc.fsf@pelzflorian.de>

> I tried to use g-golf on Guix recently, and gave up, because while Guix’
> guile-g-golf depends on glib@2.73.3, Guix’ gtk (GTK4) and gtk+ (GTK3,
> GTK2) depend on glib@2.72.3.  In other words, I believe that currently,
> g-golf cannot be used with gtk in Guix.  Upgrading gtk’s glib in the
> Guix source code caused issues with other software (that I’m sure
> someone someday will fix), though I do not remember exactly.  Using
> Fedora’s GTK with Guix’ might be possible with tricks, but normally the
> software in Guix is patched to make it use only software from Guix.

Yeah, guile-gi had the same problem on Guix. Working around it is hard.

I made a patchset where I linked GLib at runtime, but that created other problems.

No easy answers

-Mike Gran



  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-28 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-28  9:56 G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix Erik Grun
2023-05-28 10:11 ` Erik Grun
2023-05-28 16:12 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-28 19:46   ` Mike Gran [this message]
2023-05-29 15:17   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-05-28 19:21 ` David Pirotte

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