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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building from a local source code checkout
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:38:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi6c5eo9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ea6ca7-4dc9-a11b-0ea3-d6f8d3d66b31@uni-bremen.de> (Martin Castillo's message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:20:43 +0100")

Hi,

Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de> skribis:

>> Oops, you are right! So
>> 
>>    guix build python-activepapers --with-source=$HOME/Development/python-activepapers/
>> 
>> actually works, but
>> 
>>    guix build python-activepapers --with-source=$HOME/Development/python-activepapers
>> 
> As one error message earlier in the thread stated, guix uses lstat to
> get info about the stated file. lstat doesn't follow symlinks. You force
> the dereference by appending the slash.

Indeed.

I agree the matching-name constraint can be annoying.  The alternative
would be allow the user to (optionally?) specify the name of the package
whose source is being changed, as in:

  guix build python-activepapers \
    --with-source=python-activepapers=$HOME/Dev/AP

WDYT?

A bit heavyweight syntactically but maybe we have to live with it.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-21 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 11:34 Building from a local source code checkout Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-19 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-20  8:52   ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-20 10:19     ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-20 12:41       ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-12-21  6:38         ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-21 10:38           ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-21 11:20           ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-21 14:38             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-21 16:53               ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-22  9:29                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-21 17:02               ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-22 23:07                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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