Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> David Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to 
>>> #:make-flags argument.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound “build-flags” to
>> regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
>> make-flags, right?
>
> Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
> linked variant.
>
> ~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
> core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
> core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)

Heh, I think we need a PhD student to work on the scheduling of changes
in the package DAG (seriously, I think that’d be a real topic!).

Please apply to ‘core-updates’ and we’ll get it built.

Thanks!

Ludo’.