Hi, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 14:57, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> Guix as returned by ‘guix pull’ and ‘guix time-machine’ depends on >> GnuTLS. So here, we have a special case: to build Guix itself, you need >> to build GnuTLS first, and there’s no way to pass ‘--without-tests’ at >> that level. >> >> I’m not sure how to change that because unfortunately, ‘guix pull’ and >> ‘time-machine’ don’t even know that Guix depends on GnuTLS; only the >> target Guix knows about this. :-/ > > If «“guix pull” and ’time-machine’ don’t even know that Guix depends on > GnuTLS» and «to build Guix itself, you need to build GnuTLS first», how > does it work? How does «you» know that they needs to build GnuTLS > first? ‘guix pull’ builds Guix using the method implemented in (guix self). The entry point there is ‘compiled-guix’, which returns a compiled Guix. It’s not a package so the package API doesn’t apply. HTH, Ludo’.
