Hi Chris, > I don't think there was ever a bug report for this, but I think I've > found the IRC conversation for context: > > http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2017-10-17.log#203630
Thank you for this link and taking a look at this patch. I have been adding the missing inputs to ikiwiki. In the process I noticed that the cgi script needs a way of finding the perl dependencies. The Debian way of packaging the perl modules allows ikiwiki to see its dependencies immediately. In Guix, as you said, it needs some help via PERL5LIB. In using ikiwiki I found that I needed to add the PERL5LIB variable to the setup file anyway, so that the cgi script can see extra modules that are not needed at build time. In my setup file there is an 'ENV' section which contains: PERL5LIB: /home/paul/.guix-profile/lib/perl5/site_perl This means that there is no need to have PERL5LIB in the wrapper. Instead the dependencies can be propagated in the normal way. This fits in with the PREREQ_PM section of ikiwiki's Makefile.PL. So far,everything I have tested works as expected. After the latest commit e642f78f2eaf1d53d656ff3cd86d4dd186e8eb52 all the main tests pass. Best regards, Paul.