Hi, On Sat, 21 Oct 2023 at 17:22, Ulf Herrman <strin...@tilde.club> wrote:
>> I don’t know, should we start by having a proper bug report for this and >> study how this happen? [...] >> Again I’m sorry if I’m slow to understand, but I’d like to make sure we >> have a good understanding of the problem before we start discussing >> solutions. > > Okay, I suppose I should have given a concrete example of the behavior. > The qgit example can fill that role: > > $ cat $(./pre-inst-env guix build qgit -n --derivations --no-grafts > --with-latest=qtbase) If I might, Guix revision a25a492f2b, my understanding is, $ ./pre-inst-env guix build qgit -n --with-latest=qtbase /gnu/store/gx5d03as0k1w6jv0pssi6j69n8glf6w5-qgit-2.10.drv /gnu/store/h02aizdjy4p10n4gmcy0y35x14lmjx3n-qtbase-6.6.0.drv Then the builder of the derivation /gnu/store/gx5d03as0k1w6jv0pssi6j69n8glf6w5-qgit-2.10.drv reads, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (begin (use-modules (guix build qt-build-system) (guix build utils)) (qt-build #:source "/gnu/store/a57n7wy8mdi7l52pr4zg07132blgj5xp-qgit-2.10-checkout" #:system "x86_64-linux" #:outputs (list (cons "out" ((@ (guile) getenv) "out"))) #:inputs (quote (("source" . "/gnu/store/a57n7wy8mdi7l52pr4zg07132blgj5xp-qgit-2.10-checkout") ("cmake" . "/gnu/store/ygab8v4ci9iklaykapq52bfsshpvi8pw-cmake-minimal-3.24.2") ("qtbase" . "/gnu/store/khlz8afih21pd0szn5x1ck6bp6w320cz-qtbase-6.6.0") [...] #:qtbase "/gnu/store/h8z3xhpb8m1ih2k45935kqx0wya5w7vq-qtbase-5.15.10" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Therefore, the transformation does not rewrite #:qtbase. And note that qtbase-5.15.10 is not listed as #:inputs. Without the transformations, it reads, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (begin (use-modules (guix build qt-build-system) (guix build utils)) (qt-build #:source "/gnu/store/a57n7wy8mdi7l52pr4zg07132blgj5xp-qgit-2.10-checkout" #:system "x86_64-linux" #:outputs (list (cons "out" ((@ (guile) getenv) "out"))) #:inputs (quote (("source" . "/gnu/store/a57n7wy8mdi7l52pr4zg07132blgj5xp-qgit-2.10-checkout") ("cmake" . "/gnu/store/ygab8v4ci9iklaykapq52bfsshpvi8pw-cmake-minimal-3.24.2") ("qtbase" . "/gnu/store/h8z3xhpb8m1ih2k45935kqx0wya5w7vq-qtbase-5.15.10") [...] #:qtbase "/gnu/store/h8z3xhpb8m1ih2k45935kqx0wya5w7vq-qtbase-5.15.10" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Cheers, simon