Re: [PATCHES] Add 'file' to %final-inputs; patch /usr/bin/file

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden skribis:

> I chose to add a 'file-boot0' to '%boot0-inputs' to make 'file'
> available as early as possible in the bootstrap, on the theory that any
> library could soon depend on 'file'.

That makes sense.

> I've successfully built 'hello' on i686 with these patches applied, but
> I've not yet tested them on MIPS.  If I test them on the Loongson 3A
> machine, then when hydra offloads the same builds, the build logs on
> hydra will be empty.  It would be good if hydra would copy over the
> saved build log in that case.

Yes, that’s annoying.  The crux of the problem is that the offload hook
just invokes ‘guix build’ on the remote machine, and ‘guix build’
produces no output when the thing is already built.

We could add a ‘--replay-log’ option to ‘guix build’ to handle that
case.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.