From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utils: Allow wrap-program to be called multiple times.
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:40:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhprlhk0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871trk2yis.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Eric Bavier's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:56:59 -0500")
Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
> Currently, if (@ (guix build utils) wrap-program) is called multiple
> times for the same file, the original file ends up being overwritten.
> This happened to me when trying to wrap a python program, which had
> already once been wrapped by python-build-system. The
> python-build-system wrapper sets PYTHON_PATH, and I needed to wrap the
> program again in order to set PATH.
Wouldn’t it be easier or preferable to change ‘python-build-system’ to
offer a way to specify additional arguments for ‘wrap-program’?
The idea of having multiple indirections just to set a bunch of
environment variables doesn’t look appealing to me.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 22:56 [PATCH] utils: Allow wrap-program to be called multiple times Eric Bavier
2014-09-10 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-09-10 19:16 ` Eric Bavier
2014-09-11 13:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-13 6:12 ` Eric Bavier
2014-09-13 12:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-14 4:05 ` mhw
2014-09-14 14:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-14 15:16 ` Eric Bavier
2014-09-14 15:58 ` Mark H Weaver
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