From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add hdf5. Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87siriu56n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1392549699-21986-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF979-0000np-Et for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:19:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF974-0000xp-3R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:19:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1392549699-21986-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:21:39 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington skribis: > * gnu/packages/maths.scm (hdf5): New variable. > * gnu/packages/maths.scm (octave): New input hdf5. Applied, thanks! > + (native-inputs `(("inetutils" ,inetutils))) ;; the configure script = calls `hostname' All/most Autoconf-generated do that, but usually it doesn=E2=80=99t matter = if it=E2=80=99s missing. Is the result actually used? If yes, that=E2=80=99s= an impurity, so we might be better off patching the invocation. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.