bug#30680: [racket-users] Using Racket's raco on on Guix(SD)

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Good news: this seems fixed with this patch.  Some more comments inline.

Timothy Sample writes:

>>> Also, I checked all of this from Racket without grafts, and it never
>>> complained about compiling OpenSSL stuff.  Running “raco setup” gives
>>> some other errors, though.
>>
>> You're right... without grafts it doesn't have the openssl error.  The
>> other writing to the store issues still seem to persist, but it doesn't
>> block running "raco setup" (after a "raco pkg install", a step I had
>> omitted earlier).
>
> Okay.  I was confused about the “raco setup” example, but the other step
> makes more sense now.
>
> I will say that even on Debian, with an regular user, I have seen
> “permission denied” errors because Racket tries to update files in
> “/usr/share”.

Okay... on that note, "raco pkg install" now completely works IME
without permission errors, I should mention.  I'm still seeing a couple
of permission errors on "raco setup", but they don't look like they
matter unlike the ones that were appearing earlier.  And you're right,
I tried on Debian and got some errors too.

For the record, the ones I saw looked like this:

delete-file: cannot delete file
  path: /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/bin/raco
  system error: Read-only file system; errno=30
  context...:
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/launcher/launcher.rkt:358:0: make-unix-launcher
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1451:13: for-loop
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1428:8: make-launcher
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1556:8: for-loop
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:178:50
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1425:4: for-loop
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:71:0: setup-core
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/main.rkt: [running body]
   /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/raco/main.rkt: [running body]

But again, I don't think they matter.

>> ISTM that this is a separate bug.  In fact I'm afraid I've polluted this
>> bug with what I thought were all the same bug but turned out to be
>> several different bugs, of which a couple are fixed now thanks to your
>> help.
>>
>> PS: About the bounty, my thoughts are that some of these smaller issues
>> being resolved are already worth a smaller amount of compensation (and
>> thanks!), but there are *two different* larger issues of which probably
>> either is worth the full amount (though I can only afford to pay for
>> one)... one of them is the issue of the grafts breaking eg openssl
>> (which maybe we should file as a separate bug?), and the other is this
>> original bug (30680) about the attempts to compile to the store (which
>> does not seem as big of a blocker as it did previously, but is still
>> very annoying).  Does that seem fair?  (Feel free to contact me
>> off-list.)
>
> Actually I think there is only one bug, which is the grafts thing.  This
> bug was originally about compiling OpenSSL files to the store.  Grafting
> doesn’t break OpenSSL it just makes Racket try to recompile its OpenSSL
> FFI wrappers.
>
> I have a patch, too.  I sent it to guix-patches, but I must have made a
> mistake because it ended up in bug-guix attached to this bug report.
> The patch can be found at <https://debbugs.gnu.org/30680>.  Also, the
> attachment didn’t get sent to the list, but did make it to the bug page.
> Hm....  Sorry for the goof!

It seems good to me.  I'm going to push it.  Thanks for your work on
this!

I'll email you off-list about paying the bounty :)