Thanks Ricardo, On 14/09/18 06:15, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Ben, > >> When I install the "clojure" package, I can't seem to just run `clojure` >> and get an interpreter like I would on Debian. >> >> My Java is a bit rusty, but I found I could get it going by installing the "icedtea" package and running: >> >> java -cp ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar clojure.main >> >> or >> >> java -jar ~/.guix-profile/share/java/clojure-1.9.0.jar >> >> which is a bit of a mouthful. > > It is, but this is what upstream tells us to run after building the > package. Neither pom.xml (for Maven) nor build.xml (for Ant) contain > targets that generate a shell wrapper. > > It looks like adding a shell wrapper is a decision that was taken by > Debian and is not what upstream does. So this is not due to a defect in > the ant-build-system. > > To address this we may want to add a wrapper in a custom build phase. I see what you mean about Debian's approach with the wrapper. After some investigating I see that Clojure project's current approach is different again to Debian. Their releases eg. https://download.clojure.org/install/clojure-tools-1.9.0.XXX.tar.gz include scripts `clj` and `clojure` which come from https://github.com/clojure/brew-install. These scripts use functionality from https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/ to automatically download any libraries you've declared a dependency on at runtime. There will surely be a script that does this multi-repository build, but I haven't found it yet. Regards, Ben