On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote: > But that fixed only one problem while we should do something dependencies in > general. > > Imagine I have not came with this bug and some other people would just added > zlib to the inputs. We could have it wrong on multiple places and when we > would replace gnutls with something else in future, it would stay there > unnoticed. > > I can hack some script to do the checks but I believe that everyone would > appreciate clean solution which would check dependencies after build as a part > of build process...
Maybe we could extend "guix lint" so that it compiles the package and performs checks on the output (for instance, looking for .pc files and checking whether libraries are correctly propagated)? Andreas
