native-search-path and guix profile

native-search-path and guix profile

[Hartmut Goebel]

Good afternoon.

I'm curious about how exactly native-search-path work.

I packaged vagrant, which needs to find plugins, therefore I defined a 
native-search-path, see <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65131#23-lineno450>.

This works fine when using "guix shell vagrant vagrant-my-plugin": The 
env variable is set and vagrant finds the plugin. Now when installing 
vagrant and the plugin into my profile, this env variable is not set and 
vagrant fails to find the plugins installed. Also neither GUIX_PROFILE 
nor GUIX_ENFIRONMENT are set, thus using these as a base does not work 
either.

What is the indented way for making programs find their plugins?

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Hartmut Goebel

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Re: native-search-path and guix profile

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Hartmut,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> Good afternoon.
>
> I'm curious about how exactly native-search-path work.
>
> I packaged vagrant, which needs to find plugins, therefore I defined a
> native-search-path, see
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65131#23-lineno450>.
>
> This works fine when using "guix shell vagrant vagrant-my-plugin": The
> env variable is set and vagrant finds the plugin. Now when installing
> vagrant and the plugin into my profile, this env variable is not set
> and vagrant fails to find the plugins installed. Also neither
> GUIX_PROFILE nor GUIX_ENFIRONMENT are set, thus using these as a base
> does not work either.

If it works in a guix shell profile, it should work the same in your
user profile, so I'm not sure where's the issue.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim