In the documentation, when it says "guix search" search matching package,
if users don't find a package defined in .scm (hidden or no), users can
consider it is a bug, because that doesn't match the behavior described in
the specification (here, the manual and "guix search --help").

Le mar. 15 nov. 2022 à 15:54, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 00:53, bbb ee <blasforr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > in commit c81457, how gcc-toolchain can depends a package who doesn't
> > exists?
>
> The package exists, it is ’hidden’ – it means not accessible at the CLI
> level.  The ’inherit’ copies, so gcc-11 is also hidden, for instance.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define-public gcc-4.7
> [...]
>     (hidden-package
>      (package
>        (name "gcc")
>        (version "4.7.4")
>
> (define-public gcc-4.8
>   (package (inherit gcc-4.7)
>     (version "4.8.5")
>
> [...]
>
> (define-public gcc-11
>   (package
>    (inherit gcc-8)
>    (version "11.3.0")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The package ’gcc’ by itself is not barely useful because you also need
> linker etc. Well, you usually need a complete toolchain, named
> gcc-toolchain. ;-)
>
> See manual: <
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#The-GCC-toolchain>
>
>
> So this is not a bug and I miss how what could be improved.  Closing?
>
> Cheers,
> simon
>