Hello, I have applied Carlos's second patch of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72943 which gives an explanation why we skip the tests, and Noé's patch of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72968 adding the missing inputs.
As php currently does not build after the core-updates merge and this issue has been turning up regularly over the past few days, I have taken the liberty to push the commits directly without going through QA; I have tested that the package builds and works with one of my local php projects. I am closing the second issue, which is thus handled. And I am leaving the first issue open; while the immediate php problem is (hopefully) solved, it remains to be discussed whether we should propagate the gd inputs in the longer term. My understanding is that given the pkg-config file, we normally would propagate the inputs. On the other hand, propagated inputs tend to create problems (for instance, when two different packages propagate two different versions of the same input library); and I do not quite understand why with over 5000 packages depending on gd, most of them do not seem to be affected. Maybe these do not use pkg-config to check for gd? So it may be a better option to only patch the affected packages (if any are left) and leave gd as it is. Andreas
