Christopher Baines writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:28:32PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: >>> This reverts commit f8cba3ff4fc6aed0c539700aa47b6e8f4c25c34d. >>> >>> It sounds from the comment that this can hopefully be removed now. >>> >>> * gnu/packages/llvm.scm (llvm-without-rtti): Remove it. >>> * gnu/packages/gl.scm (mesa)[inputs]: Switch to using llvm rather than >>> llvm-without-rtti. >> >> Thanks! If the change doesn't trigger any rebuilds (that is, if the >> package is really unused), please push! >> >> Ideally, the commit message will say which commit made this package >> unnecessary. > > So, my understanding of this is that this change was made to prevent > some rebuilds a while ago. It does trigger quite a few rebuilds (1120), > so it'll need pushing to staging/core-updates. > > I'll test some of these packages locally, and then probably push it to > core-updates, as there's some other stuff on staging I'd like to see > merged to master soonish. I've tweaked the commit message, and tested this on top of core-updates now. With a tweak to fix the build for python2-(minimal), I've successfully built mesa and a few of it's dependnecies. So I've now pushed to core-updates.