Re: Emacs interface for Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2014-08-22 12:56 +0400) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Thanks, now (with the latest “guix pull”), installing/upgrading/removing
>>> should work in "guix.el".  If you (or someone else) wish to try it, you
>>> may use:
>>>
>>>   (setq guix-dry-run t)
>>>
>>> (It has the same meaning as “--dry-run” option).
>>
>> I gave it a try, but AFAICS, when the REPL is started as “internal”,
>> guix-main.scm isn’t loaded, and thus “Install” fails:
>>
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (process-package-actions #:install '((58935712 "out")) 
>> #:upgrade '() #:remove '() #:use-substitutes? #t #:dry-run? #f)
>> ;;; <stdin>:11:0: warning: possibly unbound variable 
>> `process-package-actions'
>> <unnamed port>:11:0: In procedure #<procedure 42ba0c0 at <current 
>> input>:11:0 ()>:
>> <unnamed port>:11:0: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: 
>> process-package-actions
>>
>> Did I miss something?
>
> I don't understand why you get this, it works for me and I can't
> reproduce it with "emacs -Q".  Does the following recipe works for you?:

I can no longer reproduce the issue, but my ~/.config/guix/latest was
pointing to an older version, so I think this may have led to a silent
failure about unbound variables, which then prevented guix-helper.scm to
be successfully loaded.

Thanks,
Ludo’.