From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: simple-scan: Update to 3.19.91.
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 01:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKFHe2Qbr=ZD8cYi8_hJAwDhtEs0t9q61FGL3HR4vsBC2aYsMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160309000506.GD24107@jasmine>
Firstly, thanks for the feedback!
On 09/03/2016, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>> I therefore simply disabled it.
>
> I think that lots of software in our distribution has unused features or
> portability "goop" that doesn't apply to us, but we don't delete that
> code.
Running ‘./configure --disable-*’ isn't deleting code. The rest is a bugfix.
> So, it fails to build from source if you don't delete this file?
Correct.
> I still don't understand why we should delete the source file.
Because it fails to build from source if we don't.
Again, this is a stale (generated) file. Did you read the linked bug report?
There are various ways to code this, but none that don't amount to
deleting (generated) source files.[1]
> After searching online for "packagekit simple scan" I found the Nix
> package definition for Simple Scan 3.19.91. They
For the record: me.
> [...] pass to ./configure '--disable-packagekit'. Would that work?
So do ‘we’:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:04:35PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> '(#:configure-flags '("--disable-packagekit")
But that alone is not enough. Not without removing the stale file.
Kind regards,
T G-R (nckx on #guix in about a quarter of an hour, if that helps :-)
[1] OK, ‘touch’ing random things, but that's just fooling make into
overwriting it, which is the same thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 22:04 [PATCH] gnu: simple-scan: Update to 3.19.91 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-03-08 23:02 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-08 23:43 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-03-08 23:50 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-03-09 0:05 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-09 0:25 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2016-03-09 1:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-09 7:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-09 13:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-09 20:56 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-12 20:33 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-13 10:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-13 16:27 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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