From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Adding a symlink to python-wrapper rebuilds python? Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:34:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87y482ady5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5719241A.5070206@crazy-compilers.com> 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]:47504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auRfk-0001jA-KW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:34:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auRfh-0004Ff-DR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:34:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5719241A.5070206@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:03:54 +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: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I'm curious: I added "python-config" to the symlinks in package > "python-wrapper". I thought, this would just use the "python" package > already in the store and augment it with he symlinks. > > Instead "guix build python-wrapper" tried to download the the *source* > for python. > > Is this intended or a bug? Most likely it had a Good Reason=E2=84=A2 to do so, but it=E2=80=99s hard t= o tell without further details, like: what did =E2=80=98guix build python-wrapper = -n=E2=80=99 report, what was available in the store, whether grafts were enabled, etc. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.