bug#42947: Chez Scheme libraries are broken

[Martin Becze]

> I see, but now we’re creating a directory that remains empty, and as I
> wrote, chez-fmt is actually installed in another directory anyway:

Oh yikes! Yeah so I see half of the scheme libraries are installed in 
lib/csv-site and other are installed in lib/csv<version>-site. It 
appears that there was a missing make flag for scheme-fmt and several 
others. Attached is an updated patch that fixes that.

On 8/31/20 3:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Martin Becze <mjbecze@riseup.net> skribis:
>
> > > This is creating an empty directory, right?  Are you sure this helps?
> >
> > Yes, I think it solves the problem. On line 92 of the package
> > definition we have
> >
> > ```
> > (native-search-paths
> >       (list (search-path-specification
> >              (variable "CHEZSCHEMELIBDIRS")
> >              (files (list (string-append "lib/csv" version "-site"))))))
> > ```
> > search-path-specification won't set the environmental variable unless
> > the folder already exists. Note lib/csv<version> does exist at this
> > point but most libraries seem to want to live lib/csv<version>-site.
>
> I see, but now we’re creating a directory that remains empty, and as I
> wrote, chez-fmt is actually installed in another directory anyway:
>
> > > Isn’t the problem that packages like chez-fmt install libraries in
> > > ‘csv-site’ instead of ‘csv1.2.3-site’?
> > >
> > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > > $ find $(./pre-inst-env  guix build chez-fmt)
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/lib
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/lib/csv-site
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/lib/csv-site/fmt-js.so
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/lib/csv-site/fmt-c.so
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/lib/csv-site/fmt.so
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc/chez-fmt-0.8.11
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc/chez-fmt-0.8.11/fmt.css
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc/chez-fmt-0.8.11/README
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc/chez-fmt-0.8.11/fmt.html
> > > /gnu/store/qr8mgphbivlqbdmn355kps2cxlmi679d-chez-fmt-0.8.11/share/doc/chez-fmt-0.8.11/VERSION
> > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So perhaps the search path should be just lib/csv-site?  Is that
> consistent across Chez packages?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

v2-0001-gnu-chez-scheme-Fix-libary-directory-issue.patch
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