Re: [PATCH] gnu: simple-scan: Update to 3.19.91.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Firstly, thanks for the feedback!

On 09/03/2016, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I therefore simply disabled it.
>
> I think that lots of software in our distribution has unused features or
> portability "goop" that doesn't apply to us, but we don't delete that
> code.

Running ‘./configure --disable-*’ isn't deleting code. The rest is a bugfix.

> So, it fails to build from source if you don't delete this file?

Correct.

> I still don't understand why we should delete the source file.

Because it fails to build from source if we don't.

Again, this is a stale (generated) file. Did you read the linked bug report?

There are various ways to code this, but none that don't amount to
deleting (generated) source files.[1]

> After searching online for "packagekit simple scan" I found the Nix
> package definition for Simple Scan 3.19.91. They

For the record: me.

> [...] pass to ./configure '--disable-packagekit'. Would that work?

So do ‘we’:

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:04:35PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> '(#:configure-flags '("--disable-packagekit")

But that alone is not enough. Not without removing the stale file.

Kind regards,

T G-R (nckx on #guix in about a quarter of an hour, if that helps :-)

[1] OK, ‘touch’ing random things, but that's just fooling make into
overwriting it, which is the same thing.