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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:04:35 +0200
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"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
> <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
>>
>>> From: David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to #:m=
ake-flags argument.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound =E2=80=9Cbuild-flags=
=E2=80=9D to
>> regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
>> make-flags, right?
>
> Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
> linked variant.
>
> ~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
> core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
> core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)

Heh, I think we need a PhD student to work on the scheduling of changes
in the package DAG (seriously, I think that=E2=80=99d be a real topic!).

Please apply to =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 and we=E2=80=99ll get it bui=
lt.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.