Re: build system for pure Guile library (was Re: Help making a GNU Guix package for pure GNU Guile library)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> Hi Ricardo,
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 10:15:20PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> If all you have are Guile modules and all you want is to package it for
>> Guix then you really don’t need to bother with Autotools.  Use the
>> “guile-build-system”.  It can be as simple as the “guile-srfi-89”
>> package in (gnu packages guile-xyz).
>
> But using Guix instead of a Makefile for building means *all* .scm
> files would need to be recompiled with each change.

If this is only about *packaging for Guix* it makes no difference because
Guix builds everything from source anyway.

The goal here is not to replace a build system with Guix.

-- 
Ricardo