From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pjotr.public12@thebird.nl Subject: Re: Heads-up: transition to Guile 2.2 Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 19:29:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20170514172927.GA31005@thebird.nl> References: <87bmt28qnm.fsf@gnu.org> <87k26chy16.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3u5wwsi.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20170514135041.GA29369@thebird.nl> <20170514153506.GA29953@thebird.nl> <20170514161342.GA30265@thebird.nl> <87efvr769a.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9xL2-0005XM-Q8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 13:29:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9xKz-0006va-MY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 13:29:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87efvr769a.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Most troublesome is that some packages set GUILE_LOAD_PATH and > GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH and mixing guile-2.0 and guile-2.2 packages > that do so is still troublesome. It would be nice (TM) if we could > find a way not to rely on setting those environment variables. One thing I noticed was that gnutls was in the 2.2 path and json was in 2.0. Providing both paths did help compilation. It was one thing I did. But it does not feel quite right :) It appears to me that we shoud have a reproducable bootstrap path at every stage of the tree. I mean for building from the checked out git tree of guix. Pj.