On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> wrote: > > David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > >> From: David Thompson <da...@gnu.org> >> >> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to >> #:make-flags argument. > > If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound “build-flags” to > regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing > make-flags, right?
Yes, exactly. With it I can easily create things like a statically linked variant. ~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe core-updates would be a good place to put this? Or would it be core-updates-next? I'm not sure anymore. :) Thanks! - Dave