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

[NOEU]

Thank you for responding to my poor English text.

As you told me, using propagated-inputs now automatically installs 
dependent packages.

I've been studying Common Lisp for about a month, and recently started 
touching GNU Guix as an alternative to the Quicklisp package management 
system. I read guix/build-system/asdf.scm, but I don't know how this 
system works overall, and it seems difficult to modify or change the 
build system.

But I think it's a great mechanism to be able to add a build system the 
way I want, so I'll try to read and understand the GNU Guile and Guix 
code in the future.

On 2020/03/03 23:53, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Thanks for bringing this up!
>
> 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.
>
> Thoughts?