Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

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Erik, following up on your idea about using --with-input, I used the
code equivalent of --with-input and wrote the attached manifest that
installs GTK with the same glib@2.73.3 as guile-g-golf (and also
upgrades g-golf to version 0.8.0-a.4 as recommended by David Pirotte).

guix shell -m guile-g-golf-with-gtk.scm

Unfortunately, GTK indirectly depends on python-pygobject@3.10.7 and its
test suite fails reproducibly for me with the newer glib.
(pygobject-test-suite gets killed by SIGTRAP.)  If you wanted to
investigate, you could try adding a --without-tests transformation to
disable pygobject’s test suite or see what Debian does differently.
Or unlikely maybe, pygobject would not fail on faster hardware?

I will not investigate further.

Regards,
Florian


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(use-modules (gnu packages glib)
             (gnu packages gtk)
             (gnu packages guile-xyz) ;for guile-g-golf
             (guix packages)
             (guix transformations))

(define rewrite-glib-to-glibnext
  (package-input-rewriting
   `((,glib . ,glib-next)
     (,gobject-introspection . ,gobject-introspection-next))))

(define rewrite-g-golf-to-a4
  (options->transformation
   ;; For some reason, with-version fails to find the git tags; use with-commit.
   '((with-commit . "guile-g-golf=66123dc74589843a5665234068c4a23767d34f0b"))))

(packages->manifest
 (list (rewrite-glib-to-glibnext gtk)
       (rewrite-g-golf-to-a4 guile-g-golf)))