On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Federico Beffa <[email protected]> writes: > >> if you want to try the package in emacs, you must first unload >> 'geiser' as there is some incompatibility between the latter and >> 'xscheme' (from MIT-Scheme). The problem is fixed upstream (geiser). > > It looks like this package downloads a pre-compiled binary bundle > containing both MIT/GNU Scheme and scmutils. There's no compelling > reason to do that here. We already have a package for MIT/GNU scheme, > so it should be possible to use that to compile this from source. Let's > do that instead please.
If you would look carefully at the recipe you would see that the tarball distributes the source together with a binary distribution and that my patch discards all pre-compiled bits, recompiles the sources with the mit-scheme from guix and only installs those. Regards, Fede
