Re: [PATCH 0/2] gnu: Add sdl-union and guile-sdl

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Regarding sdl-union:
>>
>> * This package isn't useful for users, only developers.  Should I keep it
>> private so that it doesn't show up in package searches?
>
> Probably, yes.  But could you remind me why it’s needed?  ISTR from
> earlier discussions that some tools (‘sdl-config’?) assume that all the
> headers and libraries are in the same directory, right?

Yes, that is why.

> Could you add the explanation as a comment or the ‘description’ field in
> the source?

Added.

>> Regarding guile-sdl:
>>
>> * This package doesn't build.  However, if I build with --keep-failed
>> and run `make clean && make` in /tmp/nix-.../guile-sdl-0.5.1, the build
>> is successful.  Does anyone have any thoughts about why this might be?
>> I really need some help here.
>
> Did you try #:parallel-build? #f and/or #:parallel-tests? #f?
> Otherwise, perhaps you could post the fail of the build log to see if we
> have an idea.

Parallel builds were indeed part of the problem.  Thanks for pointing
that out!

After working through some other tough problems, I finally have a
working guile-sdl package with a passing test suite.

I will submit new patches as replies to the originals.

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