Re: guix package path

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior <acpadoanjr@yahoo.com.br> skribis:

> I would like to give some feedback concerning this issue I faced.
> I found an offending package definition in my channel (but the issue is only
> present when using -L argument):
>
> (define-public gtklp
>   (let ((toolchain (specification->package "clang-toolchain@10")))
>     (package-with-c-toolchain gtklp-bad-tool `(("toolchain" ,toolchain)))))
>
> For instance, when using "guix build -L ... gtklp", the alternative toolchain 
> did not
> get called and compilation fails because of that (toolchain must be 
> clang-toolchain@10).

We don’t have enough info to be sure, but could it be that there are two
‘gtklp’ packages in your package collection, for instance because
‘gtklp-bad-tool’ is also public?  ‘specification->package’ prints a
warning if it’s ambiguous.

HTH,
Ludo’.