From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: bug#18247: Cyclic dependencies in (gnu package *) modules Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: <878umste1y.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <87egwmbxln.fsf@netris.org> <87d2c6razd.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4uupogm.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <8761hybd39.fsf@netris.org> <87oavq9na7.fsf@netris.org> <87fvh1lsnh.fsf@gnu.org> <87sil1e8g4.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdjS-0002pq-82 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:57:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdjK-0001R5-O1 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:57:10 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdjK-0001R1-Kv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:57:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XHdjK-0005qf-0y for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:57:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87sil1e8g4.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Bavier's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:53:15 -0500") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Bavier Cc: 18247@debbugs.gnu.org Eric Bavier writes: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> As a stop-gap measure, I=E2=80=99ve worked around the problem in commit = d759cf6, >> which removes the dependency from texinfo to gettext. >> >> (=C3=89ric: I see one test failure in texi2html, which is a priori unrel= ated >> to the change. Could you check what=E2=80=99s going on?) > > The problem is that texi2html does actually require gettext. Its > makefile wants to install mo files that are not present in the > distribution (so msgfmt is required). Configuring with --disable-nls > causes the resulting script to fail at runtime. > > Perhaps moving texi2html into its own module would solve the circular > dependency? That would be one way to avoid the circular dependency, yes. Mark