Am Sonntag, 3. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> Ah right, the ‘patch-shebangs’ phase just looks at files in ‘bin’ and

> ‘sbin’ (see gnu-build-system.scm).

 

Indeed, I am unpacking the additional tarballs and using patch-source-shebangs on them, so your suggestion was really useful.

 

> I’m not sure if that would help here, but do you know about

> “multiple-output derivations”? It’s used for Libtool for instance: the

> ‘outputs’ field there means that binaries go into one directory, and the

> rest goes into another directory (you see them when typing ‘guix-build

> libtool’).

>

> So if there are several kinds of files, you may want to separate them in

> different outputs.

 

See my other message - it is actually all done!

 

Andreas