On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, at 11:17 PM, Maxime Devos wrote: > * In principle, you can apply a patch from a phase. However, this causes the > result of "guix build --source" to not correspond to the actual source code > anymore (i.e., it doesn't act as corresponding source anymore), so consider > this a last resort for situations such as avoiding causing a world-rebuild > for a patch fixing a target-specific bug by making the patching conditional > upon target-foo?. If you apply a patch from a phase, make sure that the patch > appears in the inputs or native-inputs, such that "guix build --source=all" > will include the patch.
Should we have an option for "guix build --source=all" to also include the Guix "scripts used to control compilation and installation"? -Philip
