From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Circular dependency with LDC and Phobos Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:18:37 +0100 Message-ID: <878u4i5is2.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20151225165150.GA27096@thebird.nl> <871taapiep.fsf@gnu.org> <20151225181922.GB27096@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZl8-000081-S0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:18:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZl8-0007r1-4E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:18:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <20151225181922.GB27096@thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins writes: > My question is how to do this last one in the best way because I don't > see any precedents in the gnu/package sources. > 1. Write a source package for phobos and make it available in the build phase of > the other package ldc > 2. Fix git recursive downloads > 3. Allow multiple source downloads in one package Take a look at the “icedtea7” package in “java.scm”. There we download a bunch of additional sources. They are simply added to the inputs. ~~ Ricardo