> Thinking more about it, since this a new module, there shouldn't be any
> recursive dependency problem.
> 
> Probably you are missing some #:use-module at the top of your new
> module.  I'd start minimal and see what works, and evaluate the package
> at the REPL for more accurate messages perhaps.

I could boil it down a bit: when commenting out `#:use-module (gnu 
packages commencement)` in gnu/packages/engineering.scm the error 
vanishes but the freehdl package in module engineering does not build 
anymore (due to gcc-toolchain missing).
Is there a cycle inside module commencement? Seems really strange to me?

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Reza Housseini

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