On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote:

> I'll ask the recutils upstream if this was intentional.

I have done so at: 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-recutils/2019-06/msg00000.html>

> In the meantime, what do we want to do in Guix? I see two options: one is 
> patching the build system, and the other is adding a phase to install the 
> elisp files. The latter seems to me like the clearest and easiest approach 
> here.

The attached patch does the latter, copying the two elisp files to the 
site-elisp directory. It does not byte-compile the files or generate 
autoloads (we do we need to generate autoloads?). However, I don't think 
recutils 1.7 did either of those either, so at least we're no worse off 
then we were then.

What do you think?

Best,
Jack