On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:55:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I wonder how this could be implemented, any ideas? > > Roughly, we could generate a Scheme file containing the list of phases > (the generated build script contains them, but it immediately passes > them to ‘gnu-build’ or similar), which could be loaded into Guile. From > there we could explicitly manipulate the list of phases and run them. > > There are complications though, such as the fact that build systems can > lack the notion of phases altogether (this is the case of > ‘trivial-build-system’, but it may be the only one.) I wonder if we > should move phases from the build side to the host side at some point…
How about extending the -K switch with a build phase option where it should stop? I think the container thing is nice, but not really suitable for fixing stuff (as Chris notes, it ends up read-only in the store). I am pretty happy with -K. Pj. --
