Hello,
As promised, here's my work toward adding a build system for Common Lisp
software. I still have some issues with it as follows:
Getting things to work "out of the box": I'd like to set up an environment
variable to allow implementations to find installed libraries, but it's a bit
tricky:
Essentially I'd like to have, in each profile, a setup something like
export CL_SOURCE_FRAGMENT=#+sbcl \
(:directory \"${GUIX_PROFILE}/share/common-lisp/sbcl-bundle-systems/\") \
#+ecl ... \
${CL_SOURCE_FRAGMENT}
followed by
export CL_SOURCE_REGISTRY=\
(:source-registry ${CL_SOURCE_FRAGMENT} \
(:directory \"${GUIX_PROFILE}/share/common-lisp/systems/\") \
:inherit-configuration)
This would allow each implementation to pick up their own compiled libraries,
as well as systems installed as source as a fallback. I don't know how to
achieve that kind of a setup, so I'd like some help. I'm also worried about
either blowing away user configuration, or having it shadow the desired
configuration, since this isn't a simple search path which could be appended
to. Should we try to patch the asdf implementations to handle a separate
variable just for guix?
I'd also like to hear your thoughts on how packages are laid out using the
system, so I've included some examples. I was thinking that something like
package-with-python2 could also be helpful here; is that the right way
forward?
Thanks.
--
Andy
