Re: [PATCH] profiles: Generate GHC's package database cache.

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
>>
>>   ;; Don't depend on GHC when there's nothing to do.
>>   (if (any (cut string-prefix? "ghc" <>)
>>            (map manifest-entry-name (manifest-entries manifest)))
>>       (gexp->derivation "ghc-package-cache" build
>>                         #:modules '((guix build utils))
>>                         #:local-build? #t)
>>       (gexp->derivation "ghc-package-cache" #~(mkdir #$output))))
>
> Sure, this would be fine, although I wonder if we could replace the
> 'string-prefix?' with 'string=?'.  If so, the conditional could be

I used 'string-prefix?' to catch any GHC library (that we are
prefixing with 'ghc-...'). However, to compile such a library we need
GHC, so I think that 'string=?' should do.

> changed to:
>
>   (if (member "ghc" (map manifest-entry-name (manifest-entries manifest)))
>       ...)
>
> What do you think?

Thanks, I will update the patch.
Regards,
Fede