Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > > [...] > >>> Commit 68775338a510f84e63657ab09242d79e726fa457 turned out to have >>> unintended side effects: >>> >>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/61841 >> >> Ugh. >> >>> I fixed it with: >>> >>> a516a0ba93 gexp: computed-file: Do not honor %guile-for-build. >>> fee1d08f0d pack: Make sure tests can run without a world rebuild. >>> >>> Please take a look. >> >> Thank you. I still think it'd be nicer if computed-file had a means to >> honor %guile-for-build rather than having to accommodate it specially as >> you did in fee1d08f0d, so that it'd be symmetrical to gexp->derivation >> in that regard. Why can't they? > > Like I wrote, ‘default-guile’ returns a package whereas > ‘%guile-for-build’ returns a derivation. > > The latter is inherently lower-level: it’s used together with the > monadic interface or with plain ‘derivation’, when we know which system > we’re targeting. The former is higher-level, system-independent; it > must be used for <computed-file> and similar forms, which are > system-independent. I see, it's starting to make sense. I'll sleep on it :-). -- Thanks, Maxim
