From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
federico.beffa@gmail.com, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] native-search-paths for GHC
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:00:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8rttvrk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de8e0cc2e54f6b640d4a4930e17bff81@openmailbox.org> (Eric Bavier's message of "Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:27:11 -0500")
Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> On 2015-10-07 11:07, Federico Beffa wrote:
[...]
>> * If I understand correctly, the configuration files of dependencies
>> are
>> copied in a unique directory for each package. Instead of copying
>> would a symlink work? (There are literally thousands of packages on
>> Hackage and hopefully Guix will get more of them.)
>
> I don't know if symlinking is allowed across store directories, though
> if it is, that'd be something to try.
Yes it’s allowed. That’s what ‘union-build’ (the procedure that builds
profiles) does.
>> * Some Haskell libraries have a rather large list of dependencies. For
>> this reason I can imagine that in some situations GHC_PACKAGE_PATH
>> could grow rather long.
>
> Not every package would end up with an entry in GHC_PACKAGE_PATH, only
> those that are installed, or declared inputs. Dependent libraries
> would be found when GHC examines the package databases of those
> packages.
>
>> This thought made me wonder if there is a
>> maximum length to the value of environment variables that we could
>> possibly hit.
>
> We've already pushed this quite far. E.g. the hydra package creates a
> rather sizable PER5LIB path.
Nice. :-)
AFAIK there’s no limit on the size of an environment variable’s value.
However, it’s a good idea to keep search paths small, to reduce the
number of ‘stat’ calls that have to be done before a given file is
found.
Using a symlink forest is a good way to achieve that.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-07 16:07 [PATCH 0/2] native-search-paths for GHC Federico Beffa
2015-10-07 21:27 ` Eric Bavier
2015-10-08 12:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2015-10-06 21:26 ericbavier
2015-10-16 13:35 ` Eric Bavier
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