Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
> <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
> >
> >> From: David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to #:make-flags argument.
> >
> > If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound “build-flags” to
> > regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
> > make-flags, right?
> 
> Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
> linked variant.
> 
> ~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
> core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
> core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Dave
> 

I would toss it into core-updates and hope Ludo doesn't notice :). I don't
think it's quite reached building out that far yet so it should be ok.

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