bug#47538: ice-9 regex procedures not found when trying to use from r7rs-style defined library

[lloda]

Perhaps an acceptable fix would be to re-export from (ice-9 regex) before 
eventually deprecating the other export.

> On 2 May 2021, at 15:50, Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu 01 Apr 2021 09:06, Arvydas Silanskas <nma.arvydas.silanskas@gmail.com> 
> writes:
> 
>> foo.scm:
>> (define-library (foo)
>>    (import 
>>      (scheme base)
>>      (ice-9 regex))
>>    (export bar)
>> 
>>    (begin
>>      (define (bar)
>>        (make-regexp "a"))))
> 
> The issue AFAIU is that make-regexp is part of (guile), and not exported
> by (ice-9 regex).  You would need to add (only (guile) make-regexp) to
> your import set.  I know it's somewhat terrible but perhaps in the near
> future we will be able to replace this regexp support with something
> more consistent.
> 
> Please reopen if I misunderstood the bug.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
>