Re: Cross-compilation fixes

[Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>]

On 12/14/2013 06:22 PM, John Darrington wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 05:55:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>       John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
>
>       > Attached are several patches addressing cross-compilation issues,
>       > culminating in a large patch affecting lots of files, moving
>       > various "inputs" to "native-inputs".
>
>       Could you send them inline, one message per patch?  That would
>       significantly ease review.
>
> I'll see what I can do.
>
>       (‘git format-patch’ and ‘git send-email’ can be used for that, as noted
>       in HACKING.)
>
> I can't find any mention of "git send-email" in HACKING, and there appears
> to be no such command.  At least not in the git that I have installed (1.7.10.4)
>
> J'
>

Depending on your distribution, it might be part of another package 
(git-email in Debian, for instance). It is an extremely nice tool. You 
can generate a patch series by doing:

$ git format-patch <commit>


This will generate a bunch of files called 0001-commit-title, 
0002-commit-title and so on. Then just do:

$ git send-email --to guix-devel@gnu.org --in-reply-to <message-id of 
your first message> 000*.patch

And we'll get all your patches in a nice thread :)


I'll take a look at the HACKING file and add the necessary instructions.


Cyril.