From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: sreeharsha@totakura.in
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: libffi cannot be installed in user profile in core-updates
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:15:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9cflovc.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53300074.6070904@totakura.in> (Sree Harsha Totakura's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:52:52 +0100")
Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> writes:
> On 03/24/2014 07:07 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> This problem was introduced in d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063
>> "gnu: libffi: Leave a copy of headers where libffi.pc expects them."
>
> What we need to do here is to symlink the header files instead of the include
> directory. This was suggested earlier here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-01/msg00213.html
>
> Ludo, please revert d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063.
Another option is to improve union.scm so that symlinks to directories
within the store are treated the same as directories. IMO this is a
better approach. I intend to rewrite union.scm quite soon anyway, along
the lines described in the "Optimizing union.scm" thread, unless there
are objections or better ideas.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-24 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-24 6:07 libffi cannot be installed in user profile in core-updates Mark H Weaver
2014-03-24 9:52 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-03-24 13:15 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2014-03-24 14:15 ` bug#17083: ‘union-build’ does not handle collisions between a leaf and a sub-tree Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-02 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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