From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sree Harsha Totakura Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:04:59 +0100 Message-ID: <52E6213B.3020203@totakura.in> References: <1390507648-21659-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <1390507648-21659-3-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <8761p8ulih.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125161456.GA31777@jocasta.intra> <20140125164217.GA21259@debian> <20140125170440.GA4883@jocasta.intra> <871tzvu743.fsf@gnu.org> <20140126073815.GA19985@jocasta.intra> <20140126185413.GD9380@debian> <877g9mpmmd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: sreeharsha@totakura.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7i8O-0001cE-03 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:05:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7i8G-0007Sd-JU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:05:35 -0500 Received: from mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.8]:46278 helo=smtp1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7i8G-0007SU-DK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:05:28 -0500 Received: from [131.159.20.91] (nautophone.net.in.tum.de [131.159.20.91]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.in.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E8C92403BF for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:05:25 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <877g9mpmmd.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 01/26/2014 08:30 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > To summarize: =E2=80=98propagated-inputs=E2=80=99 should list libraries= 99% of the > time. Listing programs in =E2=80=98propagated-inputs=E2=80=99 just for= the sake of > populating $PATH is a bad idea. I recently found that many library packages do not propagate libc. I installed gnutls through Guix and wanted to use it for development, but the linker complained that some symbols belonging to glibc are missing. What is the correct way of doing this? Sree