Guix WTF

background

Guix home configuration involves a .scm file full of Scheme that describes a home-config containing a home-environment where the home-environment contains (among other details) the packages that the user wants in addition to what’s defined to exist in the system configuration. To create such a package enumeration, the modules containing the packages have to be imported by way of use-module.

problem

I was trying to figure out what module to include in my guix-home-config.scm so that I could use make.

I could temporarily use make by doing guix shell make which led me to believe that the package name was make.

After several internet searches and random guesses that weren’t helpful, I fetched the Guix source and started grepping.

In NixOS it was gnumake, so I had previously tried both make and gnumake as the terms in the packages list in hopes it would give me a hint from the compiler and ask if I forgot to use-module on the actual name. To further complicate this, everything else I had looked at in the source had a package name for what it was, but make had the name of make. And then right before that was some define-public gnu-make a few lines up that I didn’t know how to interpret. So even after I found the damn file it took a while before I tried the right combination of terms.

solution

I had to do a use-module on gnu packages base so that I could include gnu-make in my packages list.

Here’s my complete configuration so far:

(define-module (guix-home-config)
  #:use-module (gnu home)
  #:use-module (gnu home services)
  #:use-module (gnu home services shells)
  #:use-module (gnu home services dotfiles)
  #:use-module (gnu services)
  #:use-module (gnu packages version-control) ;; for git
  #:use-module (gnu packages tmux)
  #:use-module (gnu packages rust-apps) ;; for bat
  #:use-module (gnu packages base) ;; for make
  #:use-module (gnu system shadow))

(define home-config
  (home-environment
    (packages (list git tmux bat gnu-make))
    (services
      (append
        (list
          (service home-dotfiles-service-type
            (home-dotfiles-configuration
            (directories '("./dots"))))
          (service home-bash-service-type)

          (service home-files-service-type
           `((".guile" ,%default-dotguile)
             (".Xdefaults" ,%default-xdefaults)))
      )

        %base-home-services))))

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