From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: branch core-updates-frozen updated: gnu: sddm: Fix build.
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 22:52:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTErmJr/93QwJQJh@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtou53ht.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 06:47:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
>
> guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:
>
> > efraim pushed a commit to branch core-updates-frozen
> > in repository guix.
> >
> > The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/core-updates-frozen by this push:
> > new f883677 gnu: sddm: Fix build.
> > f883677 is described below
> >
> > commit f8836774e2c76c1f4d9bee11339839f7d878e32a
> > Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
> > AuthorDate: Thu Sep 2 17:15:39 2021 +0300
> >
> > gnu: sddm: Fix build.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/display-managers.scm (sddm)[arguments]: Use gexp for
> > configure-flags.
>
> Out of curiosity, what was the build issue? Could it be that
> ‘%build-inputs’ was undefined for this build system?
definitely a possiblity.
>
> > (arguments
> > `(#:configure-flags
>
> [...]
>
> > + ,#~(list
> > + ;; This option currently does nothing, but will presumably be enabled
> > + ;; if/when <https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/616> is merged.
> > + "-DENABLE_WAYLAND=ON"
> > + "-DENABLE_PAM=ON"
> > + ;; Both flags are required for elogind support.
> > + "-DNO_SYSTEMD=ON" "-DUSE_ELOGIND=ON"
> > + "-DCONFIG_FILE=/etc/sddm.conf"
> > + ;; Set path to /etc/login.defs.
> > + ;; An alternative would be to use -DUID_MIN and -DUID_MAX.
> > + (string-append "-DLOGIN_DEFS_PATH="
> > + #$shadow
>
> Note that this style makes it impossible for users to override “shadow”
> via something like:
>
> (package
> (inherit sddm)
> (inputs `(("shadow" ,my-very-own-shadow))))
>
> To avoid that pitfall, the New Recommended Style™ is:
>
> #~(list …
> #$(this-package-input "shadow"))
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
Sounds good. I'll take another go at it in the morning unless someone
beats me to it.
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