Re: 03/07: gnu: libfive: Add snippet, enable tests and remove obsolete phase.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 0818c01aefbaa7ecce5e310ec5f70886850a7f9c
>> Author: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
>> Date:   Fri Apr 6 13:43:54 2018 +0200
>>
>>     gnu: libfive: Add snippet, enable tests and remove obsolete phase.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/engineering.scm (libfive)[source]: Add snippet to
>>     remove bundled catch.
>
> [...]
>
>> +                (snippet
>> +                 ;; Remove bundled catch since we provide our own.
>> +                 '(delete-file "libfive/test/catch.hpp"))))
>
> It would be good to try to avoid adding more phases or snippets that
> return unspecified values.  I fixed every snippet in 'core-updates', but
> I guess more passes will be needed as these errors continue to be
> introduced.

Right, apologies for that; I’ve fixed this particular instance.

I look forward to the day where we can ignore those return values and
assume an exception is thrown when something goes wrong.  Thankfully the
work you’ve been doing on ‘core-updates’ should help us get there!

Ludo’.