wingo pushed a commit to branch wip-potluck in repository guix. commit 3325f07080977f177fd62ab96d6e8b1bedf379ee Author: Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> Date: Thu Apr 13 14:16:32 2017 +0200
potluck: Better --build-system=help. * guix/scripts/potluck.scm (parse-build-system): Add --autotools note to --build-system=help. --- guix/scripts/potluck.scm | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/guix/scripts/potluck.scm b/guix/scripts/potluck.scm index 8b06acf..59c0a75 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/potluck.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/potluck.scm @@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ init: missing --build-system; try --build-system=help for options~%"))) (let ((sys (build-system-by-name name))) (format #t " ~a ~25t~a~%" name (build-system-description sys)))) (all-potluck-build-system-names)) + (format #t " +Additionally, --autotools is like --build-system=gnu, but also indicating +that the package needs autoreconf before running ./configure.~%") (exit 0)) (unless (build-system-by-name sys) (leave (_ "invalid build system: ~a; try --build-system=help~%") sys))