From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John J Foerch Subject: Re: chicken scheme Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:16:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87a8i1blkc.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net> References: <871t3ecx0f.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net> <87shvumkp0.fsf@gnu.org> <87oa6ibadr.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net> <87vb0plmst.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIxQc-000455-IA for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:20:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIxQX-0003BX-Hc for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:20:14 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bIxQX-0003BD-Ay for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:20:09 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bIxQS-00027I-V2 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:20:05 +0200 Received: from 152.160.144.141 ([152.160.144.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:20:04 +0200 Received: from jjfoerch by 152.160.144.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:20:04 +0200 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > John J Foerch skribis: > >> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> I don't have enough experience with guix to give definite advice on >> this, but chicken does present a couple of unique issues. I think that >> having gcc available is essential to chicken's purpose, as one is not >> likely to only use the interpreter. Installing extensions requires C >> compilation, and if one is not installing extensions and not using >> chicken's compiler, then one might as well be using any old scheme off >> the street ;-) > > Right, makes sense. :-) > >> If the gcc-toolchain were kept in reference (but not in the profile), >> that may be enough. The chicken compiler has options (and/or >> environment variables) to use another gcc if desired, so people who want >> to use another gcc than the one used to build chicken can still do so. > > OK. Then I guess we should adjust our ‘chicken’ package so that it > hard-codes the absolute file name of ‘gcc’ and ‘ld’. Would you like to > give it a try? > Sure! >> Some chicken extensions install executable programs (for example >> hyde). On other OSes they would normally be installed to >> /usr/local/bin. Obviously this would be different for guix. > > This part doesn’t sound Guix-dependent. It’s more about whether > non-root users can install to, say, ~/.local, or whether only root can > install (to /usr/local/bin or similar.) WDYT? > Sorry, I don't really understand the issues at hand well enough yet to comment. I have been looking at 'guix import', as I said in my other message, and I now wonder if a package importer is the best way forward, in accordance with the guix spirit. -- John Foerch