2018-03-01 19:54 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>:

>
> Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2018-03-01 18:11 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de>
> :
> >
> >> Hi Guix,
> >>
> >> we have a problem with jar manifests.  When we use the Class-Path
> >> property to ensure that an executable can find its dependencies on the
> >> class path at run-time, we end up with a manifest like this:
> >>
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> Manifest-Version: 1.0
> >> Class-Path: /gnu/store/i28vi94r8z9f0x02zgkrv87w16ibmqkw-java-htsjdk-2.
> >>  10.1/share/java/htsjdk.jar
> >> Created-By: 1.8.0_151 (Oracle Corporation)
> >> Main-Class: picard.cmdline.PicardCommandLine
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >>
> >> Note that the Class-Path property is broken into two lines.  This means
> >> that the reference scanner will miss it and grafting will fail.
> >>
> >>
> > Could we modify the reference scanner to find these lines?
> > Would there be any serious drawback to that?
>
> The reference scanner needs to be fast.  The scheme version is heavily
> optimized to do quickly replace references for the purpose of grafting.
> The C++ version will eventually be replaced with the Scheme version as
> the daemon gets replaced.
>
> An alternative to recording full references in the manifest file is to
> install a “lib” directory that contains symlinks to dependencies.  The
> manifest can then contain relative paths to these symlinks.
>
>
I guess I would prefer to do this instead.


> That’s what I did in the package definition for dropseq-tools.
>
>
Unfortunately I cannot find this package. Where should I look for it?


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