Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

[宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:

>>On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42:42PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> If there’s consensus to install the symlink, that’s fine with me (if we
>>> take that route, I would also suggest submitting a patch upstream so GCC
>>> installs the symlink.)
>>
>>I am not in favour of adding such a symlink on our own and would rather
>>keep with the standard builds as we usually do when there is no compelling
>>reason to do otherwise.
>
> That's interesting.
>
> Consider that:
>
> * such a symlink would have spared much frustration to Mark (see
> earlier posts in this thread).
How about set $CC to 'gcc' in our 'gnu-build-system'?
>
> * It is likely that the update of 'gobject-introspection' to a newer
> version would not have caused problems (see earlier posts in this
> thread and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-01/msg00196.html).
> And, from Ludovic's comment: "So far we’ve resisted the temptation.
> ...", I understand that there are a few other packages which would
> benefit.
>
> * Up to now nobody could point out any *technical* drawback. (And if
> we find one later, we can always revert.)
>
> Even if an action if beneficial to, say, 1 in 100 packages without
> drawbacks to the other ones and the fix of that single package is
> easy, it is still worth doing. I do not see a large number of people
> contributing to this project. It is therefore important to minimize
> the likelihood of a required manual intervention to fix problems.
> Maintaining 1000's of software packages is time consuming!
>
> It would be the *GUIX project* the one who would benefit if decisions
> would be taken based on technical arguments and merits instead of
> feelings or the mood of the day.
>
> Fede