Re: (Geiser or guile bug) Guix-daemon output is missing

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Alex Kost (2015-09-10 00:24 +0300) wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-09-09 23:11 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> As a workaround for this issue it was proposed¹ to transform
>>> ‘current-build-output-port’ into a procedure (I have checked that it
>>> solves the problem).  What do you think about it?  Perhaps to make sure
>>> that the port will be always the same define it like this:
>>>
>>> (define current-build-output-port (memoize current-error-port))
>>>
>>> Is it acceptable?
>>
>> No, ‘current-build-output-port’ should remain a SRFI-39 parameter so
>> that callers can easily rebind it.
>>
>> However, perhaps the guix.el code could do:
>>
>>   (current-build-output-port (current-error-port))
>>
>> at startup; would that be doable?
>
> (IMO it would be so ugly, that I should say: "no")

After thinking more, I had an idea how to make a not-so-ugly workaround,
so "yes", I think I'll do a workaround on elisp side.

-- 
Alex