Re: Using julia in guix

[Efraim Flashner]

Apologies for top-posting. If you test the patch and find that it works
then I'll be happy to apply it.

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 11:06:25AM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 00:30, Théo Maxime Tyburn <theo.tyburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I started using julia in one of my university projects and I am not sure
> > how this should be done the guix way. Has someone experience with this ?
> 
> Cool!
> 
> 
> > For know I just used the julia package manager and the packages are in
> > ~/.julia. I was not able to use the guix packages for julia
> > however. Should something be done manually to tell julia where to find
> > its packages ?
> 
> For now, it is either packages from Pkg.jl or either packages julia-*
> from Guix.  A patch [1] is still pending for being able to mix both.
> Aside that packages from Pkg.jl do not always work out-of-the-box,
> sadly.
> 
> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/51319>
> 
> 
> > I encountered two problems. The first with the package "GR" the
> > second with the package "GLFW". I encountered these bugs while trying
> > the packages "Plots" and the "GLMakie" backend of "Makie"
> 
> IIUC, you installed all the packages using Pkg.jl, right?
> 
> Because then, I get:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ERROR: could not download
> https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/302047ed63e49eace1abd20f300ac6e22768690b
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> and I do not know if Pkg.jl works correctly with the current julia
> from Guix.  For instance, "guix shell julia -CN -- julia" then 'using
> Pkg; Pkg.add("Plots")' reports failures.  One is reference to build
> directory "/tmp/guix-build-julia-1.6.2.drv-0", see [2].
> 
> 2: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/48238>
> 
> 
> 
> > The GR bug:
> > > julia> using GR
> > > julia> histogram(randn(10000))
> > > env: 
> > > ‘/home/teddd/.julia/artifacts/b5fea2b0d5c84336f26b139587a84ee7e8ca2e12/bin/gksqt’:
> > >  No such file or directory
> > > connect: Connection refused
> > > GKS: can't connect to GKS socket application[
> > it then exits because of a segmentation fault.
> 
> Well, I do not know where does the issue come from.  I suspect
> something related to [2] above.
> 
> For now, I do not have a solution and I do not have time to work on
> it.  Sorry.  I would be happy if someone fixes the issue; probably
> patch#51319 helps here. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> simon
> 

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