From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] gnu: Add sdl-union and guile-sdl
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:08:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppcxnn0y.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw88u0nm.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Regarding sdl-union:
>>
>> * This package isn't useful for users, only developers. Should I keep it
>> private so that it doesn't show up in package searches?
>
> Probably, yes. But could you remind me why it’s needed? ISTR from
> earlier discussions that some tools (‘sdl-config’?) assume that all the
> headers and libraries are in the same directory, right?
Yes, that is why.
> Could you add the explanation as a comment or the ‘description’ field in
> the source?
Added.
>> Regarding guile-sdl:
>>
>> * This package doesn't build. However, if I build with --keep-failed
>> and run `make clean && make` in /tmp/nix-.../guile-sdl-0.5.1, the build
>> is successful. Does anyone have any thoughts about why this might be?
>> I really need some help here.
>
> Did you try #:parallel-build? #f and/or #:parallel-tests? #f?
> Otherwise, perhaps you could post the fail of the build log to see if we
> have an idea.
Parallel builds were indeed part of the problem. Thanks for pointing
that out!
After working through some other tough problems, I finally have a
working guile-sdl package with a passing test suite.
I will submit new patches as replies to the originals.
--
David Thompson
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-09 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-02 17:12 [PATCH 0/2] gnu: Add sdl-union and guile-sdl David Thompson
2014-11-02 17:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add sdl-union David Thompson
2014-11-02 17:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add guile-sdl David Thompson
2014-11-09 2:12 ` David Thompson
2014-11-09 17:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-10 0:24 ` David Thompson
2014-11-09 2:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add sdl-union David Thompson
2014-11-09 17:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-10 0:25 ` David Thompson
2014-11-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] gnu: Add sdl-union and guile-sdl Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-09 2:08 ` David Thompson [this message]
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