Hey Efraim,
Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:18:50AM -0700, Tom Willemse wrote:
>> Hey Guix \o/
>>
>> I've been wanting to package one of my little scripts in Guix Home and
>> it uses a little library I wrote for SCSH. I've been looking at how
>> Search Paths work and I'm having trouble figuring out how to make this
>> work.
>>
>> Search paths seem easy enough generally, I was able to add a simple
>> addition to my configuration by just adding this to the scsh package
>> definition:
>>
>> (native-search-paths
>> (list (search-path-specification
>> (variable "SCSH_LIB_DIRS")
>> (files '("share/scsh/site")))))
>
> Try adding the 'separator' field, so it would look like this:
>
> (native-search-paths
> (list (search-path-specification
> (variable "SCSH_LIB_DIRS")
> (separator " ")
> (files '("share/scsh/site")))))
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately this gets me a value of
`SCSH_LIB_DIRS' like
/home/chelys/.guix-home/profile/share/scsh-0.7
which, when I try the command `scsh -ll mpd.scm -o mpd' causes the
following error to appear:
error: Illegal path element in $SCSH_LIB_DIRS
$SCSH_LIB_DIRS: /home/chelys/.guix-home/profile/share/scsh-0.7
The following element is not a string or #f:
/home/chelys/.guix-home/profile/share/scsh-0.7
It's because SCSH treats the contents of `SCSH_LIB_DIRS' as "a sequence
of of s-expressions, which are `read' from the string"[1] and supports
either string values or the value #f. So `SCSH_LIB_DIRS' would have to
be in this case:
"/home/chelys/.guix-home/profile/share/scsh-0.7"
I guess this just isn't supported as yet in Guix?
Cheers,
Tom
