From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Current state of cargo-build-system
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:44:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y375qigr.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E175E19-40C4-4954-A282-EE31C77D7A5D@gmail.com>
Ivan Petkov <ivanppetkov@gmail.com> writes:
> However, it appears that guix still insists on building the entire package even
> if we only depend on the "src" output. Is it possible to lazily build packages
> based on the type of dependency? Is this something the build system can finagle,
> or is this an inherent limitation to guix?
Outputs are only generated when building the package.
If all you need is the source code, however, you can use (package-source
the-package) and use the resulting value as an input to another package.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-28 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-21 0:11 Current state of cargo-build-system Ivan Petkov
2019-01-23 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:46 ` ng0
2019-01-23 17:10 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-01-25 23:57 ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-27 23:13 ` Ivan Petkov
2019-01-28 8:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-28 16:23 ` Ivan Petkov
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