On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.
I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.
And we alone are getting into this problem it is not usual to
preprocess source files before compilation.
I already worked around the bug to confirm I correctly identified the cause.
S_W
