Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-07 Thread Suhail Singh
Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > All of it is in the Guix source code, however, which is > public. I don't have time to look into it for you right now, but I bet > you and I both would learn a lot! At least in my case, being able to find thi

Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-07 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Suhail, On Sun, Oct 06 2024, Suhail Singh wrote: > It seems this adds it to "native"? I'm not sure. All of it is in the Guix source code, however, which is public. I don't have time to look into it for you right now, but I bet you and I both would learn a lot! Kind regards Felix

Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-06 Thread Suhail Singh
Hi Felix, Felix Lechner writes: >> does use here mean being an "input" to a package? > > Yes, precisely. Or being used in a profile. I see. Thank you. >> At least for certain variables such as $SSL_CERT_DIR and $SSL_CERT_FILE >> they only have the desired effect when added to native-search-p

Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-06 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Suhail, On Sun, Oct 06 2024, Suhail Singh wrote: > does use here mean being an "input" to a package? Yes, precisely. Or being used in a profile. > I would expect ... search-paths or native-search-paths to be ... > equivalent when not cross compiling. Do you agree? Not sure. I packages ma

Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-06 Thread Suhail Singh
Felix Lechner writes: >> Does "used" above refer to runtime usage? > > It refers to any use of the "python" package. Since I am trying to understand what constitutes "use", could you please give examples? For instance does use here mean being an "input" to a package? Something more/less/else?

Re: Clarification regd. native-search-paths and search-paths

2024-10-06 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Suhail, On Sat, Oct 05 2024, Suhail Singh wrote: > Does "used" above refer to runtime usage? It refers to any use of the "python" package. The native specifier means that the inputs have the same architecture that Python is building something else on, rather than the architecture it building