Re: Debugging Guix packages?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:55:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > I wonder how this could be implemented, any ideas?
>> 
>> Roughly, we could generate a Scheme file containing the list of phases
>> (the generated build script contains them, but it immediately passes
>> them to ‘gnu-build’ or similar), which could be loaded into Guile.  From
>> there we could explicitly manipulate the list of phases and run them.
>> 
>> There are complications though, such as the fact that build systems can
>> lack the notion of phases altogether (this is the case of
>> ‘trivial-build-system’, but it may be the only one.)  I wonder if we
>> should move phases from the build side to the host side at some point…
>
> How about extending the -K switch with a build phase option where it
> should stop? 

I’m really skeptical about the usefulness of such a feature.  As Ricardo
suggested earlier, stopping at a specific phase is really easy to do by
hand, on the rare occasions where you actually want that.  (Not to
mention that one can also simply hit C-c while the thing is building.)

Ludo’.