From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sree Harsha Totakura Subject: Re: libffi cannot be installed in user profile in core-updates Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <53300074.6070904@totakura.in> References: <87ior4ku41.fsf@yeeloong.lan> Reply-To: sreeharsha@totakura.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS1Zn-0007Vn-MV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:53:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS1Zh-0004oJ-Pe for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:53:51 -0400 Received: from mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.8]:41770 helo=smtp1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS1Zh-0004ng-JU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:53:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ior4ku41.fsf@yeeloong.lan> 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 03/24/2014 07:07 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > This problem was introduced in d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063 > "gnu: libffi: Leave a copy of headers where libffi.pc expects them." What we need to do here is to symlink the header files instead of the include directory. This was suggested earlier here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-01/msg00213.html Ludo, please revert d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063. Sree