[bug#49881] [PATCH] gnu: mpfr-boot: Use gmp-boot as a dependency

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

Hello,

Em quinta-feira, 12 de agosto de 2021, às 19:14:46 -03, Ludovic Courtès 
escreveu:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> skribis:
> > Em quarta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2021, às 18:49:03 -03, Ludovic Courtès
> > escreveu:
> [...]
> 
> >> Indeed.  However, it turns out that ‘gmp-boot’, ‘mpfr-boot’, and
> >> ‘mpc-boot’ are not actually used as dependencies; we only ever use
> >> their
> >> source.
> >> 
> >> I propose to instead make that explicit with the patch below.  WDYT?
> > 
> > I think it’s a great solution! Much simpler than my patches for this
> > issue and also 49880 and 49882. Thank you very much for working on it.
> > 
> > I also confirmed that with your patch, ‘gmp-boot’, ‘mpfr-boot’, and
> > ‘mpc- boot’ “build” correctly on powerpc64le-linux (not that it really
> > matters), and they also “build” correctly on i686-linux. The latter
> > system also builds ‘gcc-core-mesboot1’ correctly.
> 
> Awesome, pushed as b417dde293080184dae9098e408849a237903a84.

Thank you!

> > Out of curiosity, why did the CI even try to build ‘gmp-boot’,
> > ‘mpfr-boot’, and ‘mpc-boot’ on powerpc64le-linux? They’re not public
> > packages, and moreover they are only dependencies of
> > ‘gcc-core-mesboot1’ which is only relevant on i686-linux…
> 
> That comes from commit 37861f6c293d7ed1033050b2b0597885ba65186f.  The
> motivation was to ensure that substitutes for these intermediate
> packages would be available on the ci.guix front-end node.  Failing to
> do that, Cuirass would not attempt fetch them from build nodes on the
> front-end node.

Thanks for the explanation. It’s nice to learn a bit more about the CI.

> Sorry that this caused a false alarm!

No problem. In hindsight, I should have dug a little deeper. Then I could 
have noticed that these packages aren’t built on their own.

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Thanks,
Thiago