Re: Using julia in guix

[Théo Maxime Tyburn]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>> So I run "./pre-inst-env guix shell julia". But apparently julia wasn’t
>> rebuilt as I did that. So when I then run "./pre-inst-env julia" I am
>> probabilly using the unpatched julia version, right ?
>> If I install say "julia-docstringextensions" with guix and then in julia
>> add it with Pkg it still gets installed the usual way.
>> How can I use the julia package as defined in the patch ?
>
> I looked at the patch again. It doesn't actually affect the julia
> package itself but packages built using the julia-build-system. Right
> now I'm trying to test it with './pre-inst-env guix shell julia
> julia-pyplot julia-staticarrays julia-statsbase' and then using the
> julia from that shell to try importing other packages to finish loading
> a different project.

Ok it seems I am doing it right then. When I run "./pre-inst-env guix
shell julia julia-gr" then "julia" and finally "pkg> add Plots" then Pkg
just reinstalls GR as a dependency of Plots. If I run "pkg> add GR" the
GR package also gets reinstalled. With the patch it should use GR from
the guix package instead, right ? Maybe this has to do with newer
version of GR being available ?