gnunet-fuse (was: Re: A package picks up a non-master package - bug or intentional?)

[ng0]

Hi,

patch file of the package in question attached.

On 17-02-16 08:46:46, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 17-02-15 22:24:58, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> 
> >> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I just picked up gnunet-fuse again and the build behaves strange.
> >> >
> >> > You have to know that I keep multiple versions of gnunet and related
> >> > packages in my GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
> >> > Normally I would expect that this:
> >> >
> >> > +    (arguments
> >> > +     `(#:configure-flags
> >> > +       (list (string-append "--with-gnunet="
> >> > +                            (assoc-ref %build-inputs "gnunet")))))
> >> >
> >> > just picks up the gnunet from within the master tree the package
> >> > definition itself is in.
> >> > But as I recently have build "gnunetgf-0.10.17731daf5" this is being
> >> > picked up instead as you can see here:
> >> >
> >> > checking fuse.h usability... yes
> >> > checking fuse.h presence... yes
> >> > checking for fuse.h... yes
> >> > checking for GNUnet core... 
> >> > /gnu/store/xbvcn8fqp5l45dh5s32nmqmvbykahq7k-gnunetgf-0.10.17731daf5
> >> > checking for GNUnet util library in 
> >> > /gnu/store/xbvcn8fqp5l45dh5s32nmqmvbykahq7k-gnunetgf-0.10.17731daf5... 
> >> > checking for gnunet/gnunet_util_lib.h... no
> >> > configure: error: gnunet-fuse requires GNUnet
> >> > phase `configure' failed after 2.8 seconds
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I wonder.. why? Is Guix just not clever enough and picks the first
> >> > fitting "gnunet" it finds and if already available its store path?
> >> 
> >> Guix doesn’t *look* for any packages, so it doesn’t need to be clever.
> >> You *tell* it what exact package to use.  Only packages that you have
> >> declared as inputs will be available.  To declare a package as an input
> >> you add *the package itself* (by unquoting a symbol that evaluates to a
> >> package value).  There is no ambiguity, neither at build time nor at
> >> runtime of Guix.
> >> 
> >> The confusion here is probably in what package value the symbol in the
> >> inputs resolves to.  And this depends on the modules that are loaded.
> >> We would need to see the full package definition and see what values the
> >> package variables correspond to.
> >
> > Okay, I will send the patch tomorrow.
> >
> > This is inside (gnu packages gnunet), so my personal modules aren't in
> > there. The package name 'gnunet' is unique:
> >
> > address@hidden ~> guix package --search=gnunet
> 
> What matters is not the package name but the name (and value) of the
> Scheme variable that is referenced in the inputs.  They are often
> identical, but since we’re speaking of non-intuitive behaviour it may
> well be that the names differ in this case.
> 
> -- 
> Ricardo
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0001-gnu-Add-gnunet-fuse.patch
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