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From: mhw@netris.org
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Making 'file' an implicit native input in core-updates
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:58:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwazasyc.fsf@netris.org> (raw)

Hi,

I recently updated libffi, libatomic_ops, and libgc on core-updates.
Unfortunately, all three of them fail on MIPS, for the same reason that
sudo and gawk currently need workarounds: all of these packages were
bootstrapped with a version of 'libtool' that requires /usr/bin/file on
MIPS.

Given that this problem is becoming increasingly common, I think we
should add 'file' as an implicit native-input for the gnu-build-system
in core-updates, and also add a new phase to %standard-phases that
substitutes /usr/bin/file in the usual places with a path that works in
the build environment.

What do you think?

      Mark

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-20 18:58 mhw [this message]
2014-08-20 19:21 ` Making 'file' an implicit native input in core-updates Eric Bavier
2014-08-20 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-21 16:02   ` [PATCHES] Add 'file' to %final-inputs; patch /usr/bin/file mhw
2014-08-22  6:12     ` mhw
2014-08-22  9:09       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-22  9:03     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-30 20:22     ` Ludovic Courtès

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