On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > >> 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. :) > > Heh, I think we need a PhD student to work on the scheduling of changes > in the package DAG (seriously, I think that’d be a real topic!).
There certainly are some subtleties. ;) > Please apply to ‘core-updates’ and we’ll get it built. Done, thanks! - Dave
