Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > This is to remove code duplication in "emacs/guix-main.scm" and > "guix/scripts/package.scm" ('build-and-use-profile' did not exist until > commits 1b67644 and d1ac5c0). > > The only important (or maybe not) difference is: > > (set-guile-for-build (default-guile)) > > in "guix-main.scm" which does not exist in 'build-and-use-profile'. It > was introduced in commit 4ad2e76 and I don't really understand why it is > needed.
For future reference, this was(?) needed because ‘run-with-store’ has its #:guile parameter default to (%guile-for-build), which itself defaults to #f (4ad2e76 and e87f059 hint at this.) I presume that somehow ‘%guile-for-build’ or #:guile gets the right value in this case. Ludo’.