Hi,

Ludo wrote:

> I think you could come up with a ‘qt-build-system’ (is that an
> appropriate name?) that simply adds the things above on top of
> ‘gnu-build-system’, similar to what ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’ does.

Many thanks for this valuable hint!

I've build a prototype and found two issues:

1. qt-build-system.scm is basically a copy of cmake-build-system.scm,
with just a few lines changed. IMHO this is not good, esp. in regard to
maintenance. I tried reusing variable using e.g. "(@ (guix build-systm
cmake) default-cmake)", but this said "symbol not found". Any other ideas?

2. The wrapper collects paths from *all* inputs, thus e.g. cmake will
become a dependency of *every* binary packages using qt-build-system.
(The current ((guix build utils) qt-warp) has the same issue.


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Hartmut Goebel

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