Re: Developing Guile with Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue 11 Aug 2015 11:11, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> the salient line being:
>>
>>     ld-wrapper: error: attempt to use impure library 
>> "/opt/guile/lib/libguile-2.2.so"
>>
>> What do I do here?  Linking against /opt/guile/lib/libguile-2.2.so is
>> *exactly* what I want to do, so not quite sure how to proceed.  I *also*
>> want the resulting binary fixed up to link via -rpath into the store, so
>> I do need the ld-wrapper AFAIU, but I guess I need for it to allow
>> linking into /opt.
>
> Grovelling in source I find that "GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES=yep
> make install" works.  Cool :)

:-)

> I guess the "right" solution is an environment variable setting to allow
> linking to libraries whose file names are absolute.  You might possibly
> want to exclude libraries in /usr, just to avoid a hassle, but people do
> make things in /usr/local so dunno.
>
> Maybe GUIX_LD_WRAPPER_ALLOW_IMPURITIES=/opt/guile:/opt/foo or so.

Yes, that’s a good idea.  Would you like to give it a try?  :-)

Ludo’.