Re: libjpeg-8 not installable

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> However, now
> $ guix-build libjpeg-8d
> returns
> libjpeg-8d: unknown package
> Using the scheme variable name does not help:
> $ guix-build libjpeg-8
> libjpeg-8: unknown package
>
> Could the behaviour of guix-build be made the same as that of guix-package?

Commit 5401dd7 does that.

There’s one difference compared to guix-package: guix-build doesn’t try
to parse “sub-derivation names” like guix-package does (after a
colon–see the manual), because that doesn’t make sense here since
guix-build builds all the outputs of a derivation.

BTW, you could have used:

  guix-build -e '(@ (gnu packages libjpeg) libjpeg-8)'

Less convenient, but more efficient.

Thanks!

Ludo’.