From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: P <pronaip@protonmail.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to reference external program used in shell-scripts?
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:41:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imq24luw.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5N_UMBvLW0XcZzRVKR4nqoYJaDH4yarA6gh7dteO6-GxllsHFtS1N7d4Q-Ffc4Mx4sfnFQVKlBCx8A40o45SXUPlfWdbVd_9S2972A9_DTM=@protonmail.com>
P via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Can we tell Guix that an input is runtime only? Or only needed in
> certain stages of the build?
We cannot and we cannot guarantee that the presence of a package during
the build isn’t going to affect the build outcome.
> For example, if a large package (let's
> say... written in Rust) uses Lua for a utility script at run time, but
> doesn't touch it at build time changing the Lua version should not
> result in a recompilation.
We cannot guarantee this.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-08 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-08 13:14 How to reference external program used in shell-scripts? Hartmut Goebel
2019-08-08 14:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-09 8:03 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-08-09 8:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-03 9:08 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-09-03 10:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-03 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-03 13:48 ` P via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2019-09-08 19:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-09-08 18:37 ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-09-08 19:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-10 8:42 ` Konrad Hinsen
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