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

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

Timothy Sample writes:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> Likewise, Gregor and Raart do not install:
>>
>> $ mv ~/.racket ~/.racket-borked
>> $ raco pkg install gregor   # lots of errors during install
>> $ racket
>> racket@> (require gregor)
>> explode-path: contract violation
>>   expected: (or/c path-for-some-system? path-string?)
>>   given: #f
>>   context...:
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/path.rkt:116:0: do-explode-path
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/path.rkt:126:0: find-relative-path7
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/tzinfo/tzinfo/private/zoneinfo.rkt:117:2: for-loop
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/tzinfo/tzinfo/private/zoneinfo.rkt:107:0: read-tzids
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/tzinfo/tzinfo/private/zoneinfo.rkt:70:0: make-zoneinfo-source
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow-val-first.rkt:388:18
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/tzinfo/tzinfo/main.rkt:63:0: system-tzid
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow-val-first.rkt:388:18
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/gregor-lib/gregor/private/moment.rkt: [running body]
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/gregor-lib/gregor/private/generics.rkt: [traversing imports]
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/gregor-lib/gregor/private/clock.rkt: [traversing imports]
>>    /home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/gregor-lib/gregor/main.rkt: [traversing imports]
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/misc.rkt:88:7
>
> This is a timezone issue.  The “tzinfo” package cannot find the
> “zoneinfo” directory in GuixSD.  If you install the “tzdata” Racket
> package, things seem to settle down.  (It would be better to tell
> “tzinfo” to use the system database, but that’s harder to do.)

Oh that's true.  I guess this was multiple issues.  Anyway, horray, that
one seems ok now!

>> ... install raart, lots of "cannot open output file" error messages ...
>> racket@> (require raart)
>> get-module-code: no such file: #<path:/home/cwebber/.racket/6.12/pkgs/ansi/ansi/private/tty-raw-extension.rkt>
>>   context...:
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/syntax/modcode.rkt:120:0: get-module-path54
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/syntax/modcode.rkt:225:0: get-module-code82
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:261:28
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:261:28
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:261:28
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/require-transform.rkt:266:2: expand-import
>>    parse-reprov-spec1
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/syntax/wrap-modbeg.rkt:46:4
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:261:28
>>    standard-module-name-resolver
>>    /gnu/store/jx0bkmaafb8fq0mqs5ywgnxq8rbpn8j1-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/racket/private/misc.rkt:88:7
>
> I got better results with “raart” when “gcc-toolchain” was available
> (i.e., “guix environment --ad-hoc gcc-toolchain”).  I guess it has to
> compile a bit of native code, so it needs a compiler.  It still brakes
> due to a syntax error, but I get the same error on Debian, so I guess
> that’s something.  :)

Yep... that seems to have fixed the install of that issue.

> 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).

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.)