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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Syntax and gexp for ff5f34ae757d709987896d6164bf125319a0f764
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:12:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn2xy8hz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZCVpwbih405gCSs4@jurong> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:51:45 +0200")

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> it looks as if commit ff5f34ae757d709987896d6164bf125319a0f764 breaks
> building of at least one package, perl-gd, depending on
> perl-extutils-pkgconfig.
>
> The latter is now defined as
> (define-syntax perl-extutils-pkgconfig
>   (identifier-syntax (perl-extutils-pkgconfig-for-target
>                       (%current-target-system))))
> which apparently does not play well with what is written in the former as
>     (native-inputs
>      (list perl-extutils-pkgconfig)) :
> guix package: error: gnu/packages/gd.scm:103:2: package `perl-gd@2.73' has an invalid input: ("_" #<syntax-transformer perl-extutils-pkgconfig>)
>
> I do not quite see where the problem lies, given that the same thing
> has been working for pkg-config for quite a while now...
> I noticed it on core-updates, but the commit comes from master.

I've seen this too, but it disappears if you byte-compile the project.
I'm not sure what that means, although it does seems sub-optimal that we
rely on byte-compilation for the code to evaluate correctly.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-31  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30 10:51 Syntax and gexp for ff5f34ae757d709987896d6164bf125319a0f764 Andreas Enge
2023-03-30 18:49 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-30 23:19   ` Leo Famulari
2023-03-31  8:15     ` Josselin Poiret
2023-04-01 16:13       ` Leo Famulari
2023-03-31  2:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-03-31  8:13   ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-31  8:42     ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-31 14:02     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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