Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add threadingbuildingblocks.

[Marius Bakke]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> +    (arguments
> +     `(;; XXX: make 'check' is run with 'make all', however the 'all' phase 
> takes
> +       ;; 30+ minutes on a AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core Processor buildmachine.
> +       #:tests? #f

30 minutes isn't bad, we have packages that takes longer. As long as it
prints something to the console, it won't time out on slow machines
either (but they will hopefully get substitutes from Hydra!).

The #:test-target seems to be 'test', by the way.

> +    (inputs
> +     `(("python" ,python)))

Does it reference python at runtime, or is it only used for building?
You can check for references with `guix gc -R /gnu/store/<item>`.

> Thanks, that's what I had at first. What about the product name, what is
> it described as? Should I refer to debians description? I remember we
> don't include © and ® in synopsis and description, but company name +
> product works?

I think I would phrase it as: "Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) is
a C++ library for writing parallel programs that take full advantage of
multicore performance."

~marius