Re: guile-hoot install reproducibly crashes at 41% build

[Felix Lechner]

Hi Dave,

On Fri, Oct 27 2023, Thompson, David wrote:

> Or remove v8 from the package inputs at the bottom of the guix.scm
> file.  We only use V8 for the test suite.

I know it's impolite to quote oneself, but please grant me a brief plug
to drop build-time tests everywhere. [1]

Package declarations would list (test-inputs ...) separately. For many
packages, it has the potential to reduce the prerequisites actually
needed to build them.

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-10/msg00060.html