Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add xfig.

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 05:34:34PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
     
     Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> writes:
     
     > From fca4924a98e06ec0d2877b14f074515a2a970605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
     > From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
     > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:10:42 -0500
     > Subject: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add xfig.
     
     Hydra reports that xfig only builds successfully on x86_64.  It fails on
     i686 and mips64el.  Can you investigate?
     
     
Looking at the mass of subsitions in xfig, it seems to me that xfig is fighting 
against imake.   In particular I see that imake sets the PROJECT_ROOT to /gnu/store/*imake/
which is wrong for every package except Imake itself.

It has been a few years since I used imake, but I seem to remember there was the
possibility to have a "vendor" specific control file.  In our case Guix is the 
vendor, so perhaps we should have a guix.cf file in imake.  However, since this 
would have to be provided by each package which uses imake.  Perhaps it would be
better to have a imake-build-system which generated it dynamically.

J'





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