Re: Configuring geiser for load paths of Guix environment

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Olivier Dion via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Say I have a .guix.scm in my project with something like
> (specifications->manifest (list "guile" "guile-fibers" "guile-gcrypt"))
>
> If I want to develop with Geiser, it needs to find these modules in its
> load paths.  My solution to this problem is the following .geiser at the
> project root:
>
> ;; -*-Scheme-*-
> (let* ((port ((@@ (ice-9 popen) open-input-pipe)
>               "guix shell -m .guix.scm -- /bin/sh -c 'echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT'"))
>        (profile ((@@ (ice-9 rdelim) read-line) port)))
>   (add-to-load-path (string-append profile "/share/guile/site/3.0"))
>   (set! %load-compiled-path
>         (cons (string-append profile "/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache")
>               %load-compiled-path)))
>
> I'm wondering if someone has a better solution to this?

I'm not an Emacs guru, so this might suck, but what I did is simply set
the related variable.  Forgot what it was, but its contents were "guile"
and I changed it to '("guix" "repl") and it worked.  You could probably
do something like '("guix" "shell" "-m" "guix.scm" "--" "guile") .