Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis:
> retitle 35034 guile2.0-git rewrites libgit2 input to use guile-2.0 > thanks > > It turns out that this problem is not specific to armhf. 'guile2.0-git' > recently started failing to build on all Hydra-supported systems. > > I see now what's going on. The problem was introduced by: > > commit 03fb5ff6ae01a680c786d9ee148839543c519411 > Author: Danny Milosavljevic <[email protected]> > Date: Thu Mar 21 23:28:43 2019 +0100 > > gnu: libgit2: Avoid Python. [...] > The 'guile-git' package has 'libgit2' as an input. The 'guile2.0-git' > variant package uses 'package-for-guile-2.0' to rewrite 'guile-git' to > use 'guile-2.0'. Unfortunately, this rewrites more deeply than we > probably want. In this case, the rewriting extends into 'libgit2', > changing its native-input from 'guile-2.2' to 'guile-2.0'. However, the > Guile code that Danny wrote doesn't work with 'guile-2.0', because it > uses the (ice-9 textual-ports) module, which doesn't exist in Guile 2.0. I’m tempted to sidestep the problem by removing “guile2.0-git”, which I think is of little use. WDYT? Ludo’.
