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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error in compiling fontutils.scm
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 13:40:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txmf5878.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201305071010.46439.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Tue, 7 May 2013 10:10:46 +0200")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> I believe this is fixed by 6d267f0.  There was a circular dependency
>> between the ghostscript and xorg modules, introduced in commit e0eb886,
>> and leading to this admittedly obscure backtrace.
>
> Excellent, thanks for your help! One suggestion: Could maybe ghostscript-
> with-x be moved to ghostscript.scm?

No, because the idea of moving it to a separate file was precisely to
get rid of the X/Ghostscript circular dependency.

> $ guix package -A ghostscript
> ghostscript     9.06.0  out     gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm:121:2
> ghostscript-with-x      9.06.0  out     gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm:121:2
>
> This is probably due to its inheritance from ghostscript in the given file.

Yes, exactly.  This can be fixed by explicitly passing a different
‘location’ field.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-05 11:48 Error in compiling fontutils.scm Andreas Enge
2013-05-06 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-05-07  8:10   ` Andreas Enge
2013-05-07 11:40     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-05-07 11:46       ` Andreas Enge

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