Re: guile-hoot install reproducibly crashes at 41% build

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Hi Felix,

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:29 PM Felix Lechner
<felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Fri, Oct 27 2023, Thompson, David wrote:
>
> > Or remove v8 from the package inputs at the bottom of the guix.scm
> > file.  We only use V8 for the test suite.
>
> I know it's impolite to quote oneself, but please grant me a brief plug
> to drop build-time tests everywhere. [1]
>
> Package declarations would list (test-inputs ...) separately. For many
> packages, it has the potential to reduce the prerequisites actually
> needed to build them.

That's good to know! Thanks for the tip. I'm behind the times on that
detail. In this particular case, though, Mortimer was trying to build
our development environment, in which we definitely want V8.  The
package in Guix core doesn't use it. :)

- Dave