Tomáš Čech <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
>>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>>
>>I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
>>You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
>>instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.
>
> I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
> build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.
I agree. I think we should patch ‘find-files’ in core-updates to not
follow symlinks:
diff --git a/guix/build/utils.scm b/guix/build/utils.scm
index a5a6167..9cbddcd 100644
--- a/guix/build/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/build/utils.scm
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ matches REGEXP."
file (strerror errno))
result)
'()
- dir)
+ dir
+ lstat)
string<?))
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
