Re: [PATCH] utils: Allow wrap-program to be called multiple times.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> Currently, if (@ (guix build utils) wrap-program) is called multiple
> times for the same file, the original file ends up being overwritten.
> This happened to me when trying to wrap a python program, which had
> already once been wrapped by python-build-system.  The
> python-build-system wrapper sets PYTHON_PATH, and I needed to wrap the
> program again in order to set PATH.

Wouldn’t it be easier or preferable to change ‘python-build-system’ to
offer a way to specify additional arguments for ‘wrap-program’?

The idea of having multiple indirections just to set a bunch of
environment variables doesn’t look appealing to me.

Thanks,
Ludo’.