Sree Harsha Totakura <sreehar...@totakura.in> writes: > On 03/24/2014 07:07 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> This problem was introduced in d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063 >> "gnu: libffi: Leave a copy of headers where libffi.pc expects them." > > What we need to do here is to symlink the header files instead of the include > directory. This was suggested earlier here: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-01/msg00213.html > > Ludo, please revert d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063.
Another option is to improve union.scm so that symlinks to directories within the store are treated the same as directories. IMO this is a better approach. I intend to rewrite union.scm quite soon anyway, along the lines described in the "Optimizing union.scm" thread, unless there are objections or better ideas. Mark