Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

[Paul Jewell via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

On 25/12/2022 08:05, Paul Jewell via wrote:
> I have now gone down this path, and nearly everything is working as 
> expected. The only problem I am tripping up with is sbcl-slime-swank 
> is trying to (require 'sb-cltl2) and failing, even though I have added 
> sbcl-trivial-cltl2 to my system configuration. It seems I am not the 
> only person who has tripped over this issue, although the previous 
> message thread [1] didn't link the problem to sbcl-slime-swank. When I 
> comment out the code in my configuration which adds swank, I am up and 
> running.
>
> This is what I have included in my system configuration:
>
> "stumpwm"
> "sbcl-cl-ppcre"
> "sbcl-trivial-cltl2"
> "sbcl-alexandria"
> "sbcl-clx-xembed"
> "sbcl-clx-truetype"
> "sbcl-stumpwm-ttf-fonts"
> "sbcl-stumpwm-swm-gaps"
> "sbcl-stumpwm-stumptray"
> "sbcl-slime-swank"
>
> although having looked in the source for the package definition for 
> stumpwm, some of these are superfluous.
>
> Do you use sbcl-slime-swank in your configuration, and if so, did you 
> come across this problem with cltl2?
>
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg13498.html
>
>
OK, so I have fixed this problem, following on from the hints in the 
message thread linked above. I defined SBCL_HOME as an environment 
variable, and pointed it at /run/current-system/profile/lib/sbcl (since 
I installed sbcl and stumpwm in the system configuration). I am not sure 
if the requirement to do this means there is a issue somewhere in 
sbcl-slime-swank which means it doesn't find sb-cltl2 (from 
sbcl-trivial-cltl2). I tried adding sbcl-trivial-cltl2 as an input, but 
this didn't resolve the problem, and I don't have enough guix knowledge 
yet to explore further.