From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: core-updates: Emacs is only supported on x86_64-linux?
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:29:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg56i55h.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874khm5pab.fsf_-_@gmail.com>
Hi Chris,
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> I've confirmed that works for emacs, except that you actually have to
> also do it for gtk+, too, since rust gets pulled in via gtk+ also.
Ugh. I'd prefer to avoid removing 'gtk+' from the inputs to 'emacs' on
any system, because the distinguishing characteristic of that package
(compared with the other Emacs variants) is that it's the Gtk+ variant
of Emacs.
For now, it would be good to eliminate the Gtk+ dependency on Rust.
If we reach the point where our Gtk+ package is only supported on
'x86_64-linux', our claim of supporting multiple architectures will
become increasingly dubious.
Does anyone know how Gtk+ depends on Rust?
Aside: I wish that Guix included a convenient tool to answer the
question "Why does package X depend on package Y?", i.e. "What paths of
dependencies lead from package X to package Y?", without having to view
the entire dependency graph (which is often too complex to grasp
visually).
For now: how about changing the failing system test to inherit from
'emacs-no-x-toolkit' instead of 'emacs'. That, combined with making
'librsvg' a conditional input to Emacs (but leaving 'gtk+' in Emacs'
inputs on all systems), should be enough to get past your immediate
problem.
What do you think?
> From e36c4cab40c5b97ffedc72acc586c0b560e7868e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 15:58:19 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: rust: Make it "supported" on all systems but i686-linux.
>
> * gnu/packages/rust.scm (rust-1.30)[supported-systems]: Instead of hard-coding
> this to just "x86_64-linux", calculate the supported systems by deleting
> "i686-linux" from %supported-systems.
I don't think we should do this until we have reason to believe that our
Rust packages actually build successfully on the other systems.
> I think both of these patches are important and needed. The patch to
> restore supported systems to the rust package is important because we
> will want rust to build successfully on many systems.
I agree that we must soon prioritize getting Rust working on other
systems, but I doubt that this simple patch will accomplish much more
than to waste precious cycles on our few non-Intel build slaves.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-08 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-07 7:56 core-updates: Emacs is only supported on x86_64-linux? Chris Marusich
2021-03-07 10:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-07 23:40 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-08 2:53 ` Chris Marusich
2021-03-08 5:29 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-03-08 7:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-10 0:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-08 7:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-09 6:04 ` Chris Marusich
2021-03-09 8:20 ` Chris Marusich
2021-03-10 0:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-08 22:33 ` Christopher Baines
2021-03-09 23:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-07 13:41 ` Christopher Baines
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