On 2018-10-11, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:16:47PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm (u-boot): Update to 2018.09.
>>   (u-boot-tools): Substitute "coverage" for "python-coverage".
>>   (u-boot-tools): Update workaround for only 99% test coverage.
>
> Thanks!
>
>>  (define u-boot
>>    (package
>>      (name "u-boot")
>> -    (version "2018.07")
>> +    (version "2018.09")
>
> For me, u-boot 2018.09 fails to build like this:
>
> ------
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot)'
> [...]
> starting phase `configure'
> source directory: "/tmp/guix-build-u-boot-2018.09.drv-0/u-boot-2018.09" (relative from build: ".")

I think u-boot itself is not a buildable package; there are numerous
packages that inherit from u-boot, such as u-boot-tools,
u-boot-wandboard, u-boot-novena, u-boot-cubieboard, etc.

Since each u-boot build is specific to a given target, I'm not sure what
a meaningful build of u-boot would be.


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