Re: Core updates status

[Josselin Poiret]

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I agree, although we'll have to be careful since some packages might
need them if they don't use pkg-config!

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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