Re: stumpwm on guix - "sb-cltl2" issues

[Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 06 May 2022 08:44:46 -0600 (1 week, 4 hours, 25 minutes ago), Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wil deBeest <bovid-19@4tii.de> writes:

> > 
> > Wil deBeest <bovid-19@4tii.de> writes:
> >
> >> 
> >> Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >>> I'm trying to run my long-standing stumpwm init.lisp on a recent Guix
> >>> install, using the packaged stumpwm, however when it launches, it
> >>> fails to process the init.lisp and gives me an "Don't know how to
> >>> REQUIRE sb-cltl2." error.
> >>> I've set the SBCL_HOME variable both in .xprofile and in the init.lisp
> >>> itself [via `(sb-posix:putenv
> >>> "SBCL_HOME=/run/current-system/profile/lib/sbcl/")' ], but this
> >>> doesn't seem to help.
> >>> Is there a good way around this? (On my other system I just compile
> >>> stumpwm from source and install; I don't know if that makes a
> >>> difference here.)
> >>> —Ben
> >> 
> >> I used to have the same problem, but I don't remember what fixed it.
> >> 
> >> SBCL_HOME isn't set at all, I only have `exec
> >> /home/bovid-19/.guix-profile/bin/stumpwm' in my
> >> `~/.xinitrc', and my stumpwm init file starts like this:
> >> 
> >> (in-package :stumpwm)
> >> (require 'sb-cltl2)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure what else I can look for.
> >
> > I have probably found the solution: in addition to stumpwm, I also have
> > `cl-trivial-cltl2' and `cl-asdf' (and sbcl) in my system configuration.
> > If you can confirm that those two packages are what was missing, we
> > should add them to the stumpwm package as inputs.

> I think I have this problem? But like Benjamin, it has also been a very long
> time since I addressed it. In my profiles, I include:

>                  "stumpwm"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-kbd-layouts"
>                  ;; net module has this unacknowledged dependency
>                  "sbcl-cl-ppcre"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-net"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-pass"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-stumptray"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-swm-gaps"
>                  "sbcl-stumpwm-ttf-fonts"

> and I don't seem to have any problem. I start it from lightdm, and I don't think
> that's doing anything special.

> Probably in my case some of the modules are including the missing dependencies.

> I hope that helps somehow.

> -- 
> Katherine

Thanks! I'll try adding these packages and see if that helps.

best,
 —Ben