From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: "Janneke Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 64509@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64509: Guile packages should install versioned aliases for binaries (guile-X.Y, guild-X.Y, etc.)
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:59:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b5e958b-e29b-4147-bedd-520ce1a50aa9@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg2kj16a.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023, at 3:37 AM, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> It's terrible that guile.m4 has this feature of preferring numbered
> binaries (even if they're later in PATH, and even if that binary
> doesn't match GUILE_LOAD_*PATHs)
I can see why it does this -- it wants to find the newest available
Guile and it wants to be sure that all the binaries it uses are a
matched set. The original design assumption was probably that, if you're
using numbered binaries, then the un-suffixed "guile" can't be relied on
to be the newest available. (Not as strange as it might sound; I have a
login on a machine where un-suffixed "perl" still runs Perl 5.005_02,
because the admins want to make absolutely sure that they never break
any user's #! scripts.)
It would probably be a good idea for guile.m4 to be altered to take the
un-suffixed binaries if that's the only way it can get a full set, but
given how long it takes for Autoconf macro changes to propagate to the
world, I think Guix should provide the numbered binaries regardless.
> and that Guix doesn't provide them. What about a wrapper package that
> provides these?
Why bother with a wrapper? It should be _easier_ to have the main guile
package supply the numbered binaries.
>> I think the solution is to use ‘guix shell -D guix -CP'
...
> Hmm, yeah -- that sounds like the proper way of doing things
...
Not an option for me, for reasons explained in my earlier reply to
Ludovic.
zw
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-07 12:59 bug#64509: Guile packages should install versioned aliases for binaries (guile-X.Y, guild-X.Y, etc.) Zack Weinberg
2023-08-15 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-16 16:09 ` Zack Weinberg
2023-08-21 7:37 ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2023-09-05 19:59 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
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