On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 07:22:18PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> >
> >> +         (replace 'build
> >> +           (lambda _
> >> +             ;; Build 'libgs.so', but don't build the statically-linked 'gs'
> >> +             ;; binary (saves 22 MiB).
> >> +             (zero? (system* "make" "so" "-j"
> >> +                             (number->string
> >> (parallel-job-count))))))
> >
> > Couldn’t we just add “#:make-flags '("so")” and avoid replacing the
> > build phase?
> 
> FWIW, I think it's a bad habit to abuse #:make-flags for targets,
> because the contents of #:make-flags is also passed to 'make' during the
> 'install' and 'check' phases.

That's a good point. For this package I think we can just re-use the
build phase replacement from the GNU Ghostscript package, as in v1 of my
patch.

> IMO, if we want to avoid replacing the build phase in cases like this,
> it would be better to add a separate #:build-target argument.
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes, it could be useful.