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* Making 'file' an implicit native input in core-updates
@ 2014-08-20 18:58 mhw
  2014-08-20 19:21 ` Eric Bavier
  2014-08-20 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: mhw @ 2014-08-20 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hi,

I recently updated libffi, libatomic_ops, and libgc on core-updates.
Unfortunately, all three of them fail on MIPS, for the same reason that
sudo and gawk currently need workarounds: all of these packages were
bootstrapped with a version of 'libtool' that requires /usr/bin/file on
MIPS.

Given that this problem is becoming increasingly common, I think we
should add 'file' as an implicit native-input for the gnu-build-system
in core-updates, and also add a new phase to %standard-phases that
substitutes /usr/bin/file in the usual places with a path that works in
the build environment.

What do you think?

      Mark

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2014-08-20 18:58 Making 'file' an implicit native input in core-updates mhw
2014-08-20 19:21 ` Eric Bavier
2014-08-20 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-21 16:02   ` [PATCHES] Add 'file' to %final-inputs; patch /usr/bin/file mhw
2014-08-22  6:12     ` mhw
2014-08-22  9:09       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-22  9:03     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-30 20:22     ` Ludovic Courtès

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