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From: Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Package's inputs for developer?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:19:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee3fvys1.fsf@laura> (raw)

Hi Guix,

I often find my self using inheritance of package to add native-inputs
that are not stricly necessary for building the project, but are used
for developement purpose like so:
-------------------------------------------------
(define base-native-inputs (list ...))

(define my-package
  (package
    ...
    (native-inputs base-native-inputs)
    ...))

;; Developers version
(package
  (inherit my-package)
  (native-inputs
    (append base-native-inputs
            (list gdb lcov))))
-------------------------------------------------

I guess this is the correct way of doing it or perhaps I should put gdb
and lcov in the base-native-inputs?.  But I was thinking that perhaps
something like `(developer-inputs (list gdb lcov))` would be better,
since these inputs are not stricly necessary for building the package.

Regards,
old

-- 
Olivier Dion
Polymtl



             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-06 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-06 16:19 Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2022-03-07 17:17 ` Package's inputs for developer? Kaelyn
2022-03-07 18:31   ` Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-03-08 16:00 ` zimoun
2022-03-08 16:45   ` Olivier Dion via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-03-08 18:44     ` zimoun
2022-03-08 17:06 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2022-03-08 20:24 ` Liliana Marie Prikler

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