Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Danny,
>
> I think you’re describing the problem that others pointed out earlier
> (there’s an open bug report IIRC) which is that grafting derivations do
> not necessarily produce all the outputs of the original derivation (so
> in one case you get a grafted ‘glib’ with just “out”, and in the other
> case a grafted ‘glib’ with “out”, “debug”, “static”, and “bin”.
>
> As a consequence, the GIR program ends up dlopening two different
> libglib.so.
>
> I believe this was discussed in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75157>.
> Perhaps we should start from there, possibly considering a revert or
> change of strategy of commit 482fda2729c3e76999892cb8f9a0391a7bd37119.

I think we should revert that commit until we can revisit.  It has
caused enough long-standing issues and the gain of having it appears small.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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