Yeah I forgot to attach the patches. Here we go Il giorno sab 3 ago 2019 alle ore 10:03 Nicolò Balzarotti < anothersms@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi, I'm back. > > I fixed the problem I had (I forgot the ./pre-inst-env -.-") > > Following this discussion, I'm adding ``native-search-paths'' to the julia > package. Now, without any other hack (like the setup.jl one), it can find > the packages but only when installed with guix package -i . It cannot find > them when in an environment (guix environment --ad-hoc julia-package). > Can you help? > > Except from this, I cleaned everything a bit, and added a draft of the > documentation. I'm attaching the new patches here (without the julia-xyz > part one, to which I'll add all package synopsis and description, and I'll > split in multiple patches before re-submitting). > > Thanks, Nicolò > > Il giorno mar 30 lug 2019 alle ore 16:02 Nicolò Balzarotti < > anothersms@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> Thanks for the quick response! >> >> Well, the environment variable JULIA_LOAD_PATH (that inside julia is just >> LOAD_PATH) works exactly like that (is a column-concatenated path list). It >> just needs the special ":@stdlib" path to let julia find its standard >> libraries. >> Example: >> > JULIA_LOAD_PATH=/my/new/path/:/profile/path/:@stdlib julia --startup=no >> -E 'LOAD_PATH' >> ["/my/new/path/", "/profile/path/", "@stdlib"] >> >> Is setting this variable from guix fine, or we need a special >> GUIX_SOMETHING variable? >> Where exactly should I set this? >> >> Thanks >> >> Il giorno mar 30 lug 2019 alle ore 14:33 Ricardo Wurmus < >> rekado@elephly.net> ha scritto: >> >>> >>> Julien Lepiller writes: >>> >>> > Le 30 juillet 2019 16:11:19 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus < >>> rekado@elephly.net> a écrit : >>> >> >>> >>Nicolò Balzarotti writes: >>> >> >>> >>> 3. By adding a simple startup.jl script, inspired by what emacs does. >>> >>This >>> >>> is simplified so I'm not sure it works for every corner case. >>> >>> #+begin_src julia >>> >>> let paths = [expanduser("~/.guix-profile"), >>> >>"/run/current-system/profile"] >>> >>> ("GUIX_ENVIRONMENT" in keys(ENV)) && push!(paths, >>> >>> ENV["GUIX_ENVIRONMENT"]) >>> >>> empty!(LOAD_PATH) >>> >>> push!.(Ref(LOAD_PATH), joinpath.(paths, "share/julia/packages/")) >>> >>> push!(LOAD_PATH, "@stdlib") >>> >>> push!.(Ref(DEPOT_PATH), joinpath.(paths, "share/julia/")) >>> >>> nothing >>> >>> end >>> >>> #+end_src >>> >> >>> >>Could this perhaps be handled by a profile hook that is included only >>> >>when the profile manifest contains a julia package? >>> > >>> > Or simply with an environment variable? GUIX_JULIA_PATH or something? >>> >>> If this is the route you go down, please ensure that it can be used as a >>> search path with more than one directory. This would make it possible >>> to extend a Julia environment with the contents of more than one >>> profile. >>> >>> -- >>> Ricardo >>> >>>