Subject: bug#46844: guile2.2-bytestructures fails to compile.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:14:15 +0100

Hi,

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> guile2.2-bytestructures and guile2.0-bytestructures don't compile.
> The reason seems to be that v1.0.9 uses (scheme eval), which isn't
> defined in guile2.0 and guile2.2. v1.0.8 doesn't use (scheme eval)

Perhaps worth reporting upstream.

> Here's the commit that seems to introduce the issue while fixing
> another:
>
> guix time-machine --commit=0a1da4652d9bb93d530ca52710f30b5d05a4251d -- build guile2.0-bytestructures guile2.2-bytestructures
>
> According to a "guix refresh --list-dependent guile2.0-bytestructures guile2.2-bytestructures"
> on 372b15f8625e7f20cafdba2677d4bf3f5eccc127, only "guile2.0-git",
> "guile2.2-parted" and "guile2.2-guix" depend on these packages,
> so unless someone needs "guile2.2-guix", it should be safe to remove
> these packages.

‘guile2.2-guix’ exists mostly to check compatibility with 2.2.  I’d like
to drop 2.2 support soonish, though it’s okay to keep as long as it’s
not a burden (which it’s slowly becoming).

Thanks,
Ludo’.