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[bug#43578] [PATCH 0/4] Rewriting implicit inputs with 'package-input-re
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zimoun |
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[bug#43578] [PATCH 0/4] Rewriting implicit inputs with 'package-input-rewriting' & co. |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:17:33 +0200 |
Hi,
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 18:23, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Concretely, the following commands had no effect thus far:
>
> guix build python-itsdangerous --with-input=python=python2
> guix build hello --with-input=gcc=gcc-toolchain@10
>
> In both cases, this is because the input we want to change is
> an implicit input. This patch set fixes that, and it fixes
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/42156> as a side effect.
Awesome!
Therefore, 'package-with-explicit-python' & co. are becoming obsolete
(or almost), right?
> This opens new possibilities. ‘--with-input=python=python2’ is one
> of them, but ‘--with-input=gcc=gcc-toolchain@10’ is not (it fails
> to build for obscure reasons that I’ll fix in ‘core-updates’, and
> it rebuilds the world anyway, which is not practical). Another
Rebuilding the world, maybe. :-) It is interesting in the HPC context
where one would like use an "optimized" compiler, isn't?
Thank you. I will give it a try for my use cases. :-)
All the best,
simon