Re: Core updates status

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

[...]

> However, as you can see, these are non-local failures: build failures
> have to be fixed in a dependency, which incurs a lot of rebuilding.
> I've fixed a couple of them locally, but here's a nasty one I just got
> stuck on: curl has a .la file with "-lnettle -lhogweed -lgssapi_krb5",
> which leads to a build failure for... flatpak :( So fixing this properly
> would lead to a world rebuild.
>
> I'm worried this will keep accumulating a bunch of world rebuilds,
> slowing down c-u some more.  I'd vote to keep the pkgconf switch for
> later and focus on merging the rest of what c-u has to offer.

I don't mind too much; when we re-enable the change we should add a
phase to the gnu-build-system automatically deleting/moving the libtool
archives. so that we're covered.

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Thanks,
Maxim