[bug#63263] [PATCH] gexp: Stop generating unreadable builder scripts.

[Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>]

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> I guess my perspective on this is more from the operation of the guix
>>>> data service, which is carefully computing and storing all of these
>>>> broken derivations (and there's a lot, like 10,000+ per revision at the
>>>> moment, since they change every time you compute them).
>>>
>>> Woow, that’s a lot!  Could you send a sample of that list, for one
>>> system type, to get an idea of what’s going on?
>>
>> I think pretty much all the i586-gnu derivations
>
> Oh, I see.  I’m less surprised then.  :-)
>
>> were broken in this way, on core-updates but then after the merge to
>> master too. I think I've "fixed" it now, although I think my change
>> [1] needs some improvement (I fixed some issues in [2], but I saw an
>> error when cross building).
>
> I think we’re good now, right?

I spotted problems again today. I'm not sure if they're new, or just
things I missed in the last round of fixes.

I'm waiting for the data service to give it's opinion on these changes:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63416

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