From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Document /homeless-shelter?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:27:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YeRjlaQmozDSX0OD@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da292db25297a37ee115e2f8167184a1862329ef.camel@telenet.be>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 07:16:11PM +0100, Maxime Devos wrote:
> > +(modify-phases %standard-phases
> > + (add-before 'check 'fix-home-directory
> > + (lambda _
> > + (setenv "HOME" "/tmp"))))
> > +@end lisp
>
> Sometimes ‘hand-written, automake/cmake/... is bloat!’-style Makefiles
> install things to $HOME in the 'install' target, maybe you could give
> something like that as an example for when setting HOME to /tmp won't
> work?
As I suggested in my reply (concurrent to yours), this use of /tmp is
not something we need to document authoritatively. Rather, packagers
have to make a judgement about how to handle package build scripts that
try using $HOME.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-16 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-16 3:19 Document /homeless-shelter? Matt
2022-01-16 5:20 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-16 17:38 ` Matt
2022-01-16 18:16 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-16 18:27 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2022-01-16 18:25 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-16 18:55 ` Matt
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