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Subject: Re: Cross-building GuixSD (and maybe using pre-built toolchains)
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:56:30 +0200
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To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
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Hi,

David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:

> When adding cross-compilation support to the linux-libre package I
> noticed that native-inputs are in #:key native-inputs when
> cross-compiling but not when compiling natively. I think this is a
> problem because we can't just use #:key native-inputs instead of #:key
> inputs when adding support for cross-compilation.
>
> WDYT?

It=E2=80=99s on purpose, and packages rarely (if even) need to refer to
#:native-inputs; only a couple of phases in gnu-build-system.scm refer
to #:native-inputs.

In which context do you need to refer to #:native-inputs?

Ludo=E2=80=99.