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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:41:31 -0400
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
<ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
>
>> From: David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
>>
>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to #:ma=
ke-flags argument.
>
> If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound =E2=80=9Cbuild-flags=
=E2=80=9D to
> regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
> make-flags, right?

Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
linked variant.

~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)

Thanks!

- Dave