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Subject: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:13:39 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 =C4=8Cech wrote:
>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>
>I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
>You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, f=
or
>instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.

I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.

And we alone are getting into this problem it is not usual to
preprocess source files before compilation.

I already worked around the bug to confirm I correctly identified the cause.

S_W