Re: Bugs in parsing build options

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-05-31 22:32 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> 1. The following command:
>>
>>   GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS="--no-grub" guix package --help
>>
>> gives the following error:
>>
>>   guix package: error: no-grub: unrecognized option
>>
>> So it makes impossible to use GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS env var or did I miss
>> anything?
>
> GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS is intended for options that related to building,
> namely those listed in ‘%standard-build-options’ in (guix scripts
> build).
>
> Conversely, ‘--no-grub’ is specific to ‘guix system’.

Ah, indeed!  I missed that GUIX_BUILD_OPTIONS is intended to have only
‘build’ options, not ‘system’ ones, sorry.

>> 2. The manual says that ‘guix package’ «supports all the common build
>> options that ‘guix build’ supports» and the following command works
>> perfectly:
>>
>>   guix build --system=i686-linux hello
>>
>> However, the following command:
>>
>>   guix package --system=i686-linux --install hello
>>
>> gives an error again:
>>
>>   guix package: error: system=i686-linux: unrecognized option
>
> Same issue: the manual is somewhat vague, but ‘--system’ is not in
> ‘%standard-build-options’.
>
> ‘--system’ was intentionally not added to ‘guix package’ on the grounds
> that it wouldn’t be very useful to install binaries built for another
> system in a profile.
>
> Now, I agree that the situation is different on “multi-personality”
> systems, so maybe we should revise that choice?
>
> Thoughts?

I believe that ‘guix package’ should support ‘--system’ option.  At
least I have a need to install some packages of another system to my
profile.

-- 
Alex