Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

[Paul Jewell]

Hi Felix,

Thanks for the response!

On 25/12/2022 04:29, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Paul Jewell via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> > I want to use the same configuration file under guix.
> > Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains
> > it can't find package "ql".
> I have used StumpWM with simple configurations. I used only CL modules
> that were declared as prerequisites to StumpWM as it is packaged in
> Guix.

I have now added the relevant quicklisp packages via guix in my system 
configuration file, and they are all loading correctly. I am still 
getting an error with SB-CLTL2 which didn't go away when I added 
sbcl-trivial-cltl2 to my configuration - I am still looking for this 
solution (i.e. - trying to identify which package I need to add to 
satisfy this requirement!).

> StumpWM probably cannot see the Quicklisp packages you installed in
> your home directory (and maybe also not those in your home profile)
> because Guix generally uses absolute paths to make prerequisites
> available to software like StumpWM.

That makes sense.

> It means you may have to jump through some hoops to use additional
> prerequisites in a configuration that is loaded dynamically. In the
> past, I have provided updated package definitions to myself for that
> purpose. This is an area with which I am not very familiar, but the
> restrictions you are experiencing make sense to me and also match my
> own experience.

I am keen to get my guix system into a state where I can adopt it fully 
on my laptop. I find the documentation quite terse though when it comes 
to explaining how guix does things. As a reference, I have no 
complaints, but when you start off I find it explains how to do 
something (often with several variants), but not why. Starting with 
someone else's configuration initially was probably more of a hindrance 
than a help, but I am past that now.

Once I get everything as I like it, I think I will make a patch to fill 
out the stumpwm section in the cookbook so others can find their way in 
more easily.

Best regards,
Paul