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bug#40272: linux-module-build-system don't support an inferior package a
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#40272: linux-module-build-system don't support an inferior package as a kernel |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:34:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Danny!
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> On Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:46:00 +0200
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
[...]
>> In this case, the problem is that (@ (guix build-system linux-module)
>> lower) assumes that ‘linux’ is a <package>:
>>
>> (build-inputs `(,@(if source
>> `(("source" ,source))
>> '())
>> ,@native-inputs
>> ;; TODO: Remove "gmp", "mpfr", "mpc" since they are
>> ;; only needed to compile the gcc plugins. Maybe
>> ;; remove "flex", "bison", "elfutils", "perl",
>> ;; "openssl". That leaves very little ("bc", "gcc",
>> ;; "kmod").
>> ,@(package-native-inputs linux) ;<----- HERE
>>
>> I suppose you could add a special-case for (inferior-package? linux).
>> Not pretty, but it’d do the job.
>
> Or, as the comment says, it might be enough just to not get the
> package-native-inputs from the package ever, but do hard-code
> bc, gcc and kmod. Maybe add a comment why :)
True, that may be the easiest solution, and it certainly makes sense.
Thanks,
Ludo’.