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build: Add julia-build-system

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From: Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, 36856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#36856] build: Add julia-build-system
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 10:04:20 +0000

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Yeah I forgot to attach the patches. Here we go

Il giorno sab 3 ago 2019 alle ore 10:03 Nicolò Balzarotti <
anothersms <at> gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hi, I'm back.
>
> I fixed the problem I had (I forgot the ./pre-inst-env -.-")
>
> Following this discussion, I'm adding ``native-search-paths'' to the julia
> package. Now, without any other hack (like the setup.jl one), it can find
> the packages but only when installed with guix package -i . It cannot find
> them when in an environment (guix environment --ad-hoc julia-package).
> Can you help?
>
> Except from this, I cleaned everything a bit, and added a draft of the
> documentation. I'm attaching the new patches here (without the julia-xyz
> part one, to which I'll add all package synopsis and description, and I'll
> split in multiple patches before re-submitting).
>
> Thanks, Nicolò
>
> Il giorno mar 30 lug 2019 alle ore 16:02 Nicolò Balzarotti <
> anothersms <at> gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response!
>>
>> Well, the environment variable JULIA_LOAD_PATH (that inside julia is just
>> LOAD_PATH) works exactly like that (is a column-concatenated path list). It
>> just needs the special ":@stdlib" path to let julia find its standard
>> libraries.
>> Example:
>> > JULIA_LOAD_PATH=/my/new/path/:/profile/path/:@stdlib julia --startup=no
>> -E 'LOAD_PATH'
>> ["/my/new/path/", "/profile/path/", "@stdlib"]
>>
>> Is setting this variable from guix fine, or we need a special
>> GUIX_SOMETHING variable?
>> Where exactly should I set this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Il giorno mar 30 lug 2019 alle ore 14:33 Ricardo Wurmus <
>> rekado <at> elephly.net> ha scritto:
>>
>>>
>>> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:
>>>
>>> > Le 30 juillet 2019 16:11:19 GMT+02:00, Ricardo Wurmus <
>>> rekado <at> elephly.net> a écrit :
>>> >>
>>> >>Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> >>
>>> >>> 3. By adding a simple startup.jl script, inspired by what emacs does.
>>> >>This
>>> >>> is simplified so I'm not sure it works for every corner case.
>>> >>> #+begin_src julia
>>> >>> let paths = [expanduser("~/.guix-profile"),
>>> >>"/run/current-system/profile"]
>>> >>>     ("GUIX_ENVIRONMENT" in keys(ENV)) && push!(paths,
>>> >>> ENV["GUIX_ENVIRONMENT"])
>>> >>>     empty!(LOAD_PATH)
>>> >>>     push!.(Ref(LOAD_PATH), joinpath.(paths, "share/julia/packages/"))
>>> >>>     push!(LOAD_PATH, "@stdlib")
>>> >>>     push!.(Ref(DEPOT_PATH), joinpath.(paths, "share/julia/"))
>>> >>>     nothing
>>> >>> end
>>> >>> #+end_src
>>> >>
>>> >>Could this perhaps be handled by a profile hook that is included only
>>> >>when the profile manifest contains a julia package?
>>> >
>>> > Or simply with an environment variable? GUIX_JULIA_PATH or something?
>>>
>>> If this is the route you go down, please ensure that it can be used as a
>>> search path with more than one directory.  This would make it possible
>>> to extend a Julia environment with the contents of more than one
>>> profile.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ricardo
>>>
>>>

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