Re: G-Golf - Installation problems in Guix

[Mike Gran]

> I tried to use g-golf on Guix recently, and gave up, because while Guix’
> guile-g-golf depends on glib@2.73.3, Guix’ gtk (GTK4) and gtk+ (GTK3,
> GTK2) depend on glib@2.72.3.  In other words, I believe that currently,
> g-golf cannot be used with gtk in Guix.  Upgrading gtk’s glib in the
> Guix source code caused issues with other software (that I’m sure
> someone someday will fix), though I do not remember exactly.  Using
> Fedora’s GTK with Guix’ might be possible with tricks, but normally the
> software in Guix is patched to make it use only software from Guix.

Yeah, guile-gi had the same problem on Guix. Working around it is hard.

I made a patchset where I linked GLib at runtime, but that created other 
problems.

No easy answers

-Mike Gran