On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:58:45PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > > Hello > > > You may try e.g. scons, pip, sphinx, or youtube-dl. > > Hartmut was kind enough to suggest the above python applications to test > this `wrap-language-programs` patch set against, however I have been > stuck in "Rebuild the world"-hell for the last day and a half setting up > testcases. > > I end up feeling a bit desesperated and incompetent, as I'm sure it's > not supposed to be this hard to create an appropriate test scenario here > — so I was wondering whether anyone has any pointers in avoiding > constantly rebuilding the world?
Most of the Guix distribution depends on Perl, and most of the rest depends on Python ;) Try `guix refresh -l perl`. So, changing the build systems for these languages will require you to rebuild almost everything. Changes like this will need to go on the core-updates branch, where we make changes to the core of the system. You could create a separate perl-test-build-system and use it for your test packages.
