From: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mystery of missing 'install' phase in guile-build-system
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:26:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b2cf647-cc52-98b7-f4d4-6c592ad94b06@elenq.tech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfnu6rvc.fsf@lease-up.com>
Hi,
On 2024-09-26 23:13, Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the
GNU System distribution. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A piece of software of mine using the guile-build-system runs tests
> after the 'install' phase. A recent system update failed because there
> is no such phase.
>
> Looking at the Guix source code, the 'install' phase never existed.
> Shouldn't every build system have that phase?
>
> Why did the same package definition work three months ago?
>
> Thanks for helping with this mystery!
>
> Kind regards
> Felix
>
The fast and simple answer is that the 'install phase is not mandatory.
The build system defines which of the steps it uses and how, they don't
need to have specific names.
A different question is how does the Guile build system find which files
to install and where to install them. :)
It's a little bit late so I can't check it deeper but you should find
how it is done in: guix/build/guile-build-system.scm
Good question btw!
Cheers,
Ekaitz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-26 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-26 21:13 Mystery of missing 'install' phase in guile-build-system Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-09-26 21:26 ` Ekaitz Zarraga [this message]
2024-09-27 16:00 ` Luis Felipe
2024-10-07 21:10 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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