All,

Apologies for the empty email earlier.  That shows me for trying to send
from mobile!

Liliana,

Liliana Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:

> I've added a patch to use explicit search paths rather than whatever Zig used
> before and tried fixing some (syntactic) errors with the tests, but was
> unsuccesful, as there appear to be failing tests in the suite itself.  Could
> you have a look at the revised patch and check what flags you could add to
> the check phase to make it meaningful?
>
> Btw. I haven't checked whether my cosmetic changes to #:configure-flags break
> things or not.  The end of the build phase puts a large amount of stress onto
> my system that I'd like to avoid at this hour.

I'm still working through the tests, but I did find one issue that has
cropped up either from your patch or from the 0.7.1 -> 0.8.1 upgrade.
This is from attempting to build tetris [0] (though I had to make a few
syntax fixes, attached below, to build with 0.8.1):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Zig attempted to find the path to native system libc headers by executing this command:
cc -E -Wp,-v -xc /dev/null
error: unable to create compilation: UnableToSpawnCCompiler
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

No combination of ZIG_LIB_DIRS and ZIG_INCLUDE_DIRS seems to fix
it.  Neither does --search-prefix.

If I set CC=gcc, it works fine.  But I think something changed such that
it now has to fall back to this method of detection.  I have no idea
why.

[0] https://github.com/andrewrk/tetris

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Sarah