Re: Suggestion for a guix shell feature.

[Apoorv via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

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I can add rust:cargo but the package definition in the guix.scm is already using `cargo-build-system` shouldn't it include rust and cargo etc automatically?

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Dec 31, 2023, 16:56 by maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com:

> Hi,
>
> Apoorv <apoorvs@tuta.io> writes:
>
>> Sorry, this is my first time using some mailing list.
>>
>> I tried using `--container` and `--emulate-fhs` first it doesn't seem
>> to use `guix.scm` automatically I have to specify it using
>> `--file=guix.scm`. Second, the container is missing so much more stuff
>> like cargo for example.
>>
>
> Yes, that's a somewhat surprising behavior designed to avoid bad
> surprises, in that if you start using arguments with 'guix shell', the
> 'do what I mean' magic is cancelled and you need to explicit each
> arguments.
>
> About cargo missing, what prevents you from adding rust:cargo to your
> guix.scm file?
>
>> This is my own project in Rust lang, I basically define `guix.scm` for
>> all my projects since I started using Guix.
>>
>
> I guess this being rust everything is statically compiled, and the usual
> dynamic loader is not useful here (the RUNPATH baked in elf binaries is
> not used).
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Maxim
>


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