bug#26860: [PATCH] Remove hard dependency on guile-json

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello.  Currently, Guix cannot be built without guile-json.  The
>> attached patch fixes it.
>>
>>>>From 3a65a2f35b54604327ba69a55381fee0faac18e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Alex Kost <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 22:44:19 +0300
>> Subject: [PATCH] build: Compile stackage only if 'guile-json' is available.
>>
>> This is a followup to commit 3089b5d3f5a31b191b68ce3aa9255b646940b642.
>>
>> * Makefile.am (MODULES): Move "guix/scripts/import/stackage.scm" within
>> 'if HAVE_GUILE_JSON'.
>
> Would it not work to autoload the module?
> “guix/scripts/import/stackage.scm” itself does not require guile json.
>
> Something like that is done in commit
> fad5f5fb8dffb4a1cbe40ee9d31a346b901305d1 (in the unmerged wip-installer
> branch).

Ricardo, could you take a look at this?

I’m not sure if autoloading works, unless we use the ‘module-autoload!’
hack as done in other places.

TIA.  :-)

Ludo’.