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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:52:41 -0400
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
>> <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> From: David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to #:=
make-flags argument.
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound =E2=80=9Cbuild-flag=
s=E2=80=9D to
>>> regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
>>> make-flags, right?
>>
>> Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
>> linked variant.
>>
>> ~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
>> core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
>> core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)
>
> Heh, I think we need a PhD student to work on the scheduling of changes
> in the package DAG (seriously, I think that=E2=80=99d be a real topic!).

There certainly are some subtleties. ;)

> Please apply to =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 and we=E2=80=99ll get it b=
uilt.

Done, thanks!

- Dave