From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trivial build system
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:25:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87387gxsd7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150111153829.GA23991@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:38:29 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> I could call "tar" myself, but then I would also need to copy
> first-subdirectory from gnu-build-system. So having a trivial-build-system
> consisting of the phases 'set-paths and 'unpack from gnu-build-system
> would be very useful, and also make packages that currently use the trivial
> system more easy to write. (I am taking font-dejavu as a model; we would
> not need to set PATH to include bzip2, call tar explicitly and chdir into
> the created directory).
Yeah, perhaps we need some sort of an intermediate between
trivial-build-system and gnu-build-system.
The idea is that trivial-build-system really does nothing (and it does
it well!). And then, (guix build gnu-build-system) exports its phases,
so it’s always possible to reuse them, as David noted.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-11 15:12 Trivial build system Andreas Enge
2015-01-11 15:25 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-12 9:31 ` Build system phases Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-11 15:33 ` Trivial build system David Thompson
2015-01-11 16:44 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-11 15:38 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-12 9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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