Hello!
The Guile 2.2 series is becoming a reality, so time has come to provide
packages built with/for Guile 2.2 (aka. 2.1, aka. ‘guile-next’).
Commit 947a5d47a50252cb0b87b78a8f83f274dec593e2 adds a
‘package-for-guile-2.2’ procedure similar in spirit to
‘package-with-python2’. It provides a simple way to define 2.2-using
package variants, equivalent to:
guix build something --with-input=guile=guile-next
You can install 2.0 and 2.2 variants of Guile packages side by side:
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$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -p foo -i guile-minikanren guile2.2-minikanren
guile guile-next
The following packages will be installed:
guile-minikanren 20150424.e844d85
/gnu/store/xib2gmbs0pgy572c8k7a658kph76yjra-guile-minikanren-20150424.e844d85
guile2.2-minikanren 20150424.e844d85
/gnu/store/8y3cqkrqhg9v3f0cvzcrhv7fcq7rz2yz-guile2.2-minikanren-20150424.e844d85
guile 2.0.11 /gnu/store/95x5fxvcggyaa8ymjjgv5q0dnzkrign9-guile-2.0.11
guile-next 2.1.3
/gnu/store/kqq37w4xnl1q21g6vz93qq1rdb2y7ayc-guile-next-2.1.3
4 packages in profile
The following environment variable definitions may be needed:
export PATH="foo/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
export
GUILE_LOAD_PATH="foo/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"
export
GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="foo/lib/guile/2.0/ccache:foo/share/guile/site/2.0${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH"
export
GUILE_LOAD_PATH="foo/share/guile/site/2.2${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"
export
GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="foo/lib/guile/2.2/ccache:foo/share/guile/site/2.2${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH"
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The main difficulty is that upstream build systems and some of our
recipes hard-code “/2.0” in the name of the module installation
directories. I’ve fixed that in a few packages in the commits preceding
the one above. I’m afraid there’s no simple automated way to fix that,
other than telling upstream developers to do the right thing.
Anyway, have fun!
Ludo’.
