From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Customising linux-libre Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:38:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87mvl8od0f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160719164916.6597-1-david@craven.ch> <20160719164916.6597-5-david@craven.ch> <20160719221158.7c56d128@scratchpost.org> <67ba13da5f2285a568c9760bd7b9e37d@tobias.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQuKM-0004sE-38 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 06:38:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQuKL-00021m-07 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 06:38:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <67ba13da5f2285a568c9760bd7b9e37d@tobias.gr> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:11:56 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: guix-devel , David Craven Hello! Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > On 2016-07-22 21:58, Vincent Legoll wrote: >>> Does anyone know a reason why all the .config stuff couldn't be >>> moved to a separate 'configure-phase, before I waste my time? ;-) >> >> There's a thread in help-guix that may be relevant: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-07/msg00096.html > > Yes, in the sense that Ludo's example from that thread was what > got me started. I hadn't expected it to be so easy. > > What I actually meant was: why is everything up to =E2=80=98make oldconfi= g=E2=80=99 > part of the build phase, and not a separate 'configure phase? Good point! The current =E2=80=98build-phase=E2=80=99 could very much be s= plit into maybe 3 phases: one to set ARCH, one to fiddle with .config, one to run =E2=80=98make oldconfig=E2=80=99, and one to perform the actual build (thre= e? four?). WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.