Re: About "asdf-build-system/source" and dependent packages

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt 写道：
>> Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> +1
>
>> asdf-build-system/source should turn its inputs into propagated 
>> inputs
>> so that it does what the users want.
>>
>> I guess we just need to fix the build system.
>>
>> What about other build systems?
>>
>> For instance, installing an sbcl package will not drag the 
>> source of its
>> dependents, which could be considered a bug.
>
> …so there's no way to do this in Lisp-land without propagation? 
> Damn.

Actually you are right, I think we can.
We can probably generate a new .asd for the source so as to find the
dependency sources in the store.

We already do this for the SBCL build system, we would just need to copy
this part of the code to the source build system and make sure we point
to the right .asd.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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