From: Paul Jewell via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 07:16:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4b746d4-b9fb-7ead-2ac9-314911171553@teulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFHYt55OgQPdsnT3UFE6wzLA6BdJaHeZBmBC8M73vwyN6Z9LqA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Felix,
Thanks for the response!
On 25/12/2022 04:29, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Paul Jewell via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I want to use the same configuration file under guix.
>> Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains
>> it can't find package "ql".
> I have used StumpWM with simple configurations. I used only CL modules
> that were declared as prerequisites to StumpWM as it is packaged in
> Guix.
I have now added the relevant quicklisp packages via guix in my system
configuration file, and they are all loading correctly. I am still
getting an error with SB-CLTL2 which didn't go away when I added
sbcl-trivial-cltl2 to my configuration - I am still looking for this
solution (i.e. - trying to identify which package I need to add to
satisfy this requirement!).
> StumpWM probably cannot see the Quicklisp packages you installed in
> your home directory (and maybe also not those in your home profile)
> because Guix generally uses absolute paths to make prerequisites
> available to software like StumpWM.
That makes sense.
> It means you may have to jump through some hoops to use additional
> prerequisites in a configuration that is loaded dynamically. In the
> past, I have provided updated package definitions to myself for that
> purpose. This is an area with which I am not very familiar, but the
> restrictions you are experiencing make sense to me and also match my
> own experience.
I am keen to get my guix system into a state where I can adopt it fully
on my laptop. I find the documentation quite terse though when it comes
to explaining how guix does things. As a reference, I have no
complaints, but when you start off I find it explains how to do
something (often with several variants), but not why. Starting with
someone else's configuration initially was probably more of a hindrance
than a help, but I am past that now.
Once I get everything as I like it, I think I will make a patch to fill
out the stumpwm section in the cookbook so others can find their way in
more easily.
Best regards,
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-25 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-24 9:45 Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp Paul Jewell via
2022-12-24 21:20 ` Trev
2022-12-25 4:29 ` Felix Lechner via
2022-12-25 7:16 ` Paul Jewell via [this message]
2022-12-25 7:41 ` Trev
2022-12-25 8:05 ` Paul Jewell via
2022-12-25 18:39 ` Trev
2022-12-26 14:14 ` Paul Jewell via
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