Hi,
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 at 00:25, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should we close it as 'notabug', or persist with the attempt to wrap the
> cling binary with the include paths required to ease its setup?
>From my understanding about what cling is, we have a similar issue with
some others packages. Bigloo does not work out of the box [1]:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix shell -C bigloo libunistring gcc-toolchain libgc pcre \
-- bigloo /tmp/myfile.scm
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Idem for ghc (Haskell) which requires gcc-toolchain. And I proposed [2]
to have <X>-toolchain for a ready-to-use X compiling toolsuite where
could be cling, ghc, bigloo, etc.
For instance, Debian has haskell-platform which includes all a regular
user needs for a regular Haskell development setup. And we already
provide gcc-toolchain or clang-toolchain, or even gfortan-toolcahin,
gdc-toolchain, piet-toolchain, etc. Therefore, we could also have
the package cling-toolchain propagating all the required packages that
we currently have to manually specify i.e. gcc-toolchain.
WDYT?
1: https://yhetil.org/guix/878rp3bs1a....@gmail.com
2:
https://yhetil.org/guix/caj3okz0i0djqmzgj9wwzdc2tkc8wetzxqw46kh+vq9zkbgb...@mail.gmail.com
Cheers,
simon
