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To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 03:28:58PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> >> For Guix developers, I think it's reasonable to have a traditional GNU
> >> build system.  After all, Guix is also a regular software package that
> >> people can build from source with './configure && make && make install'.
> >
> > My point is that we can simplify. I like simple. Simple is good.
> >
> > We can have both the configure and a simple Makefile.guix option. That
> > is what I do with my projects.
> >
> > We do not need bootstrap, autoconf and configure on a running Guix
> > system. We do need it for other distributions.
> 
> I agree.  build-aux/build-self.scm, which is what ???guix pull??? runs to
> build Guix, is close to what you???re suggesting, IIUC: a pure-Guile build
> script.  WDYT?

It is interesting - especially the hoops jumping around guile
versioning ;) - but it still looks like it invokes the traditional
gnu-build-system. I think we can do without that too. 

Pj.
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