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I'm attempting to work around Bug 34426 locally, temporarily, until it is
fixed. From Björn's comment, it seemed that the inferiors feature could get
xmlsec functional again.
I attempted this to include this file in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH:
```
;;; refer to older gnutls in xmlsec build and gnucash should pick it up
(define-module (my-gnucash)
#:use-module (guix inferior)
#:use-module (guix channels)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
(define channels
(list (channel
(name 'guix)
(commit "cc2e0566be1c2fa632fc3cc4e6cf705c665aa0d2"))))
(define inferior
(inferior-for-channels channels))
(define-public gnutls-works
(first (lookup-inferior-packages inferior "gnutls")))
(define-public xmlsec
(package
(name "xmlsec")
(version "1.2.27")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/download/"
"xmlsec1-" version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32
"1dlf263mvxj9n4lnhhjawc2hv45agrwjf8kxk7k8h9g9v2x5dmwp"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(propagated-inputs ; according to xmlsec1.pc
`(("libxml2" ,libxml2)
("libxslt" ,libxslt)))
(inputs
`(("gnutls" ,gnutls-works)
("libgcrypt" ,libgcrypt)
("libltdl" ,libltdl)))
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
(home-page "https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/")
(synopsis "XML Security Library")
(description
"The XML Security Library is a C library based on Libxml2. It
supports XML security standards such as XML Signature, XML Encryption,
Canonical XML (part of Libxml2) and Exclusive Canonical XML (part of
Libxml2).")
(license (license:x11-style "file://COPYING"
"See 'COPYING' in the distribution."))))
```
I then executed a guix pull but needed to break it, due to massive RAM
usage.
```
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
Building from this channel:
guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git2b613a1
;;; note: source file /home/mflack/src/guix/fixes/my-gnucash.scm
;;; newer than compiled
/home/mflack/.cache/guile/ccache/2.2-LE-8-3.A/home/mflack/src/guix/fixes/my-gnucash.scm.go
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
^C
```
A ps command showed things were going recursively out of hand:
```
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
...
13012 pts/1 Ss 0:00 \_ -zsh
13173 pts/1 Sl+ 0:01 | \_
/gnu/store/r658y3cgpnf99nxjxqgjiaizx20ac4k0-guile-2.2.4/bin/guile
--no-auto-compile
/gnu/store/b4khxdizs6d865mrplbjvr22dz86mra3-profile/bin/guix pull
13187 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_
/gnu/store/r658y3cgpnf99nxjxqgjiaizx20ac4k0-guile-2.2.4/bin/guile
--no-auto-compile
/home/mflack/.cache/guix/inferiors/spq524ihiy7puxwygqgkxc5x5cxigodu4tl7zbwdznu6osps5g7a/bin/guix
repl -t machine
13204 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_
/gnu/store/r658y3cgpnf99nxjxqgjiaizx20ac4k0-guile-2.2.4/bin/guile
--no-auto-compile
/home/mflack/.cache/guix/inferiors/spq524ihiy7puxwygqgkxc5x5cxigodu4tl7zbwdznu6osps5g7a/bin/guix
repl -t machine
13214 pts/1 Sl+ 0:00 | \_
/gnu/store/r658y3cgpnf99nxjxqgjiaizx20ac4k0-guile-2.2.4/bin/guile
--no-auto-compile
/home/mflack/.cache/guix/inferiors/spq524ihiy7puxwygqgkxc5x5cxigodu4tl7zbwdznu6osps5g7a/bin/guix
repl -t machine
[... 593 further nesting lines ending in repl -t machine ...]
```
```
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 2b613a1a5d4d41b0b5d1f6ea7254585be0c209fa
Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
```
Thanks!
--
Martin