Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> The question is: do we want to make a 'cc' symlink to 'gcc' in the
> 'gcc' package?

So far we’ve resisted the temptation, and it’s rarely been an issue.
:-)

> From 355bae94512391434bb6c7e14e8632451654380b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:25:29 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: eudev: Add pre-build phase.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (eudev): Add 'pre-build phase to fix compilation with
>   'gobject-introspection' 1.42.0.

[...]

> +       (alist-cons-before
> +        'build 'pre-build
> +        ;; The program 'g-ir-scanner' (part of the package
> +        ;; 'gobject-introspection'), to generate .gir files, makes some
> +        ;; library pre-processing.  During that phase it looks for the C
> +        ;; compiler as either 'cc' or as defined by the environment variable
> +        ;; 'CC' (with code in 'giscanner/dumper.py').
> +        (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +          (let ((gcc (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "gcc") "/bin/gcc")))
> +            (setenv "CC" gcc)))

I suspect this may be simplified with just:

  (setenv "CC" "gcc")

Otherwise LGTM.

Thanks,
Ludo’.