Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > 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’m really skeptical about the usefulness of such a feature. As Ricardo suggested earlier, stopping at a specific phase is really easy to do by hand, on the rare occasions where you actually want that. (Not to mention that one can also simply hit C-c while the thing is building.) Ludo’.
