Re: Using julia in guix

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 05:58:28PM +0100, Théo Maxime Tyburn wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

I suppose it could be. I was having trouble building newer versions of
gr so Guix ended up with the version it has.

For some reason I'm having trouble downloading the registry so I can't
test the patch as well as I'd like to.

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