Re: The waf problem (running nondeterministic binary blobs at build)

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com> skribis:

> Debian replaces all binary 'waf' files with their own
> 'waf-uncompressed'. I think our python-waf package should be altered to
> produce an uncompressed version, then the waf-build-system should
> automatically use that (look at the python-pycairo package for an
> example of using the system's waf version instead of the bundled one).

Sounds like a plan.  We can take this route and adjust if we stumble
upon incompatibilities.

Apparently we’d have 20 packages to audit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(gnu)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix build-system waf)
scheme@(guile-user)> (fold-packages (lambda (p n)
				      (if (eq? (package-build-system p) waf-build-system)
					  (1+ n)
					  n))
				    0)
$2 = 20
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

We can do that incrementally, and patches going in that direction would
be welcome!

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.