From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: "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: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:09:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c66d5270-6a44-4d23-8f5b-830d7f58bbe4@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7j86ldw.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, at 5:33 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The Guile packages currently install all their binaries under their
>> basic name only, e.g.
...
>> This is a problem for building Guix
>> itself from source in a non-pure ‘guix shell -D guix’ on top of a
>> foreign distro that provides a ‘guile-3.0’ binary but not the other
>> four programs:
>
> I think the solution is to use ‘guix shell -D guix -CP’: that’ll give
> you a container, where /usr/bin/guile-3.0 isn’t accessible, which
> ensures there’s no interference.
I can't use container mode (or pure mode), because there's another
layer in the way: I'm using <https://github.com/purcell/envrc> to
pull settings out of `guix shell` and poke them into Emacs. This
inherently only supports non-pure operation.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-16 16:10 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2023-08-21 7:37 ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2023-09-05 19:59 ` Zack Weinberg
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