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On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 14:21, Emmanuel Medernach
<emmanuel.medernach@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is not listed in this list because it is specific to the project. I would like to be able to create one new license but the license function is not exported.

It appears to me a good idea to export the record 'license'.

The tiniest trivial patch [1] ;-)

[1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/40795


> How do you debugged this issue to find that we have to add pkgconfig ?

Because the 'modify-phases' uses pkg-config and everything is isolated.

To be fully clean, 'pkg-config' should go to 'native-inputs' [2];
maybe the others too, do not know enough about your package.

[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#package-Reference


All the best,
simon