On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > * gnu/packages/patches/python-sqlite-3.8.4-test-fix.patch,
> >   gnu/packages/patches/python2-sqlite-3.8.4-test-fix.patch: New patches.
> > * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add them.
> > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-2)[source]: Add patch.
> >   [inputs]: Add sqlite.
> >   (python)[source]: Add patch.
>
> [...]
>
> > @@ -167,6 +171,7 @@
> >       `(("bzip2" ,bzip2)
> >         ("gdbm" ,gdbm)
> >         ("libffi" ,libffi)                         ; for ctypes
> > +       ("sqlite" ,(@ (gnu packages databases) sqlite)) ; prevent
> circular refs
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn’t prevent anything: it’s roughly equivalent to
> having #:use-module (gnu packages databases).
>

Interesting, ok.  I thought I'd seem some other such comment elsewhere, but
maybe I'm mistaken.


> However, maybe the circular dependency is not a problem here.  Does
> “make clean-go && make” succeed?
>

It does succeed, yes.  So maybe it isn't a problem.  I'll remove that bit.
Thanks.

`~Eric

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