Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add opusfile.

[Mark H Weaver]

Paul van der Walt <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2015-10-21 at 21:23, quoth Ludovic Courtès:
>>> +    (inputs
>>> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>>
>> This one should be in ‘native-inputs’ (normally ‘guix lint’ warns about
>> it.)
>>
>> OK to push with this change.
>
> Right, fixed and pushed.  Is it surprising that it worked as i had it,
> though?

No.  The difference between 'inputs' and 'native-inputs' is noticeable
when cross-compiling.  'inputs' are built to run on the target machine,
and 'native-inputs' are built to run on the build machine.

For example, suppose you use an x86_64 machine to cross-compile this
package to run on armhf.  If you put 'pkg-config' in 'inputs', then it
would have been built to run on 'armhf', so when 'configure' tries to
run 'pkg-config' on the x86_64 build machine, it won't work.

      Mark