Guix package for gnutls-guile

Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Roel Janssen]

Dear list,

Up until now I have been using Guix on Fedora.  Fedora provides a
package 'gnutls-guile' which makes things work in Guix.

I don't see such a package in Guix, so I wonder what I exactly need to
do to get the gnutls guile module so that Guix can use it to download
from HTTPS sources.

Excuse me if this has been asked many times before.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Halo!

Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:

> I don't see such a package in Guix, so I wonder what I exactly need to
> do to get the gnutls guile module so that Guix can use it to download
> from HTTPS sources.

The Guile bindings are distributed as part of GnuTLS, so the package
you’re looking for is ‘gnutls’.  :-)

Ludo’.

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Roel Janssen]

Hi!

Thanks for your quick response.

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Halo!
>
> Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> I don't see such a package in Guix, so I wonder what I exactly need to
>> do to get the gnutls guile module so that Guix can use it to download
>> from HTTPS sources.
>
> The Guile bindings are distributed as part of GnuTLS, so the package
> you’re looking for is ‘gnutls’.  :-)

That's convenient.

Yet, even with gnutls in my profile, and running:
  `guix package --search-paths`

I still get the following error output:
;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session

What else could cause this error output?

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hallo,

On 17/06/16 00:25, Roel Janssen wrote:
> Yet, even with gnutls in my profile, and running:
>   `guix package --search-paths`
> 
> I still get the following error output:
> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
> 
> What else could cause this error output?

It seems to happen a lot. This thread[1] solved that error for me. YM,
as always, MV...

Kind regards,

T G-R

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-04/msg00158.html

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> On 17/06/16 00:25, Roel Janssen wrote:
>> Yet, even with gnutls in my profile, and running:
>>   `guix package --search-paths`
>> 
>> I still get the following error output:
>> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
>> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
>> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
>> 
>> What else could cause this error output?
>
> It seems to happen a lot. This thread[1] solved that error for me. YM,
> as always, MV...

Yeah, it should be a “simple matter” of setting ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’.

‘guix package --search-paths’ will not tell you that unless both Guile
and GnuTLS are in your profile.

HTH!

Ludo’.

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Roel Janssen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi!
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:
>
>> On 17/06/16 00:25, Roel Janssen wrote:
>>> Yet, even with gnutls in my profile, and running:
>>>   `guix package --search-paths`
>>> 
>>> I still get the following error output:
>>> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
>>> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
>>> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session
>>> 
>>> What else could cause this error output?
>>
>> It seems to happen a lot. This thread[1] solved that error for me. YM,
>> as always, MV...
>
> Yeah, it should be a “simple matter” of setting ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’.
>
> ‘guix package --search-paths’ will not tell you that unless both Guile
> and GnuTLS are in your profile.

My Guile paths are fine:

[rjanssen2@localhost ~]$ env | grep guile
GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"
GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/lib/guile/2.0/ccache:/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"

And I verified that:
  /home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0/gnutls.scm
exists.

Is there anything else that can cause this error output?
Doesn't 'make-session' have anything to do with it?

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen

Re: Guix package for gnutls-guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:

[...]

>>>> I still get the following error output:
>>>> ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
>>>> ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
>>>> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: make-session

[...]

> My Guile paths are fine:
>
> [rjanssen2@localhost ~]$ env | grep guile
> GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"
> GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/lib/guile/2.0/ccache:/home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0"
>
> And I verified that:
>   /home/rjanssen2/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.0/gnutls.scm
> exists.
>
> Is there anything else that can cause this error output?

Can you try “guile -c '(use-modules (gnutls))'”?

The GnuTLS bindings are written in C, with guile-gnutls.so being
dlopened when (gnutls) is loaded.  Dlopening may fail if, for instance,
guile-gnutls.so is linked against a different libc than guile.

Thus, you have to use Guile and GnuTLS both from Guix, or both from your
other distro; you cannot mix them.

HTH!

Ludo’.