Re: Trying to create a .zshrc in guix home environment referencing a zsh plugin

[Abbé <gnu.bonfire@p.atriar.ch>]

On Sunday, January 21st, 2024 at 1:10 PM, Saku Laesvuori <saku@laesvuori.fi> wrote:

> > [reformatted]
> > 
> > (zshrc
> > (list (computed-file
> > "zshrc"
> > #~(begin
> > (reduce string-append ""
> > (list "bindkey -e\n"
> > (format #f "source ~s/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh\n"
> > #$zsh-syntax-highlighting)
> > "eval \"$(direnv hook zsh)\"\n"
> > "eval \"$(zoxide init zsh)\"\n"))))))
> 
> 
> The gexp passed to computed-file should produce a file when built
> (evaluated)[1]. Your gexp doesn't create any files or directories, it just
> evaluates to a string. Try using mixed-text-file[2] instead.
> 
> It is not relevant to this error, but I think your path to
> zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh is wrong. In my configuration it is
> "/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh".
> 
> [1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#index-computed_002dfile
> [2]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#index-mixed_002dtext_002dfile
> 
> > And I receive following error:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------
> > $ guix time-machine -C ./channels.scm -- home reconfigure config.scm
> > guix home: error: reference to invalid output 'out' of derivation '/gnu/store/2dqwm651a0p0vqwhpvsy7dn8zvx4n99x-zshrc.drv'
> > ------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> The error says that the derivation (created by computed-file) does not
> produce an output named out (because the gexp doesn't produce any
> outputs).

This makes sense. Thank you very much!

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Abbé