Subject: Re: guix can't find gfortran-toolchain or gdc-toolchain

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:16:10 +0100

Hi Jesse

Am Dienstag, dem 04.01.2022 um 00:47 -0700 schrieb Jesse Gibbons:
> Strange bug, guix can't find gfortran-toolchain even though it is a 
> package defined publicly in one of the files it presumably searches.
> 
> `which guix` outputs the expected
> "$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin/guix", 
> so it probably isn't a problem with my guix home.
> 
> `guix package -A gfortran` returns nothing.
> 
> `guix package -A gcc-toolchain` shows several different versions of 
> gcc-toolchain in gnu/packages/commencement.scm
> 
> `guix edit gcc-toolchain` opens the source where guix presumably
> found the gcc-toolchain package definition. Within that file, 
> gfortran-toolchain is defined publicly.
> 
> This is also the case for gdc-toolchain.
Checking gfortran-toolchain inside the Guix REPL, its properties
contain (hidden? . #t), which probably also applies to gdc-toolchain.

Cheers