Thank you!

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 12:11 Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> wrote:

> Roman Scherer <roman.scherer@burningswell.com> skribis:
>
> > Hi Guillaume,
> >
> > sorry about that. Here is another patch. The failed dependencies you
> > mentioned are working now. Another reason why netcdf-parallel-openmpi
> > failed was that I changed the build system previously to cmake. I went
> > back to use the original gnu build system. I changed it to cmake
> > initially because I saw that in Arch Linux's PKGBUILD and I remember
> > having had some problems initially. I guess it was related to the tests
> > I now patched.
> >
> > While at the topic. Do we prefer any build system over the other in
> > general in Guix, like cmake vs gnu. Does one have more features than the
> > other (I heard something about cross compilation)?
>
> Usually the best build system is the one that upstream developers use.
> If several equivalent build systems can be used, it depends what works
> best or what is easier in Guix...
>
>
> > And another question. How did you find the failing dependencies in the
> > first place? Did you build all the dependencies of the netcdf packages
> > with --sources=all?
>
> You can find the dependents of a package with:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l <package-name>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So you can rebuild all the dependents of a package with something like:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ./pre-inst-env guix build $(./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l <package-name>
> | cut -d ':' -f 2)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> Patch pushed as 66188398c446bdf9ce044fa539536e9b54c28c60 with a complete
> commit message.
> Thanks.
>