Re: core-updates is back

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> There is some oddness in cross-pkg-config: It creates a symlink to the real 
> pkg-config,
> But does not do so for the pkg.m4 file.  

Why would the missing pkg.m4 be a problem?  It’s only used when
bootstrapping Autoconf-based packages.

(And if it’s really needed, it’s easy to add that symlink.)

> I think the symlink is wrong anyway, since in the build environment the 
> symlink target 
> will not exist.

Of course it exists!

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix build 
"/gnu/store/y634jqapqxs6ajzifx0shd8w7iaf9yrc-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1.drv"
The following file will be downloaded:
   
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1
@ substituter-started 
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1
 
/gnu/store/fkq63515pz3l8bdyi6qhchb9pida7pzp-guix-0.8.47739f5/libexec/guix/substitute-binary
found valid signature for 
'/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1',
 from 
'http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1'
downloading 
`/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1'
 (0.0 MiB installed)...
http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1
     0.2 KiB transferred@ substituter-succeeded 
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1

$ ls -l 
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1/bin/
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 76  1 janv.  1970 mips64el-linux-gnu-pkg-config -> 
/gnu/store/s432k19icqqjchfp83klghv3p07q5hdd-pkg-config-0.27.1/bin/pkg-config

$ guix gc --references 
/gnu/store/9ycjrm4n6w4ar740vsxlacbd2x5s3khr-pkg-config-mips64el-linux-gnu-0.27.1
/gnu/store/s432k19icqqjchfp83klghv3p07q5hdd-pkg-config-0.27.1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,
Ludo’.