Re: [PATCH 5/5] guix: python-build-system: Fix an outdated comment.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 12.10.2016 um 18:03 schrieb Leo Famulari:
>>> >  (define %standard-phases
>>> > -  ;; 'configure' and 'build' phases are not needed.  Everything is done 
>>> > during
>>> > -  ;; 'install'.
>>> > +  ;; 'configure' phase is not needed.
>> I have no real comment because I don't know the python-build-system well
>> enough. Is the sentence about 'install' no longer accurate?
>
> The python-build-system uses the build and the install phase, but not
> the configure phase. So the old comment was plain wrong. I assume once
> only the install phase was used[*] and the comment has had been correct :-)
>
> Which is possible and much like running "make install" without prior run
> to "make".

Indeed, I think this has been the case since commit
b191f88ee34576a6908b9b5e94cb7664e88c7e79.

Note however that Mark reverted this patch from master because it would
have caused a rebuild of all things Python.  However feel free to apply
it to wip-python-build-system.

Thanks,
Ludo’.