Hey hey!
Andy Wingo <[email protected]> skribis:
> Guile will try to automatically compile .scm files and cache them in
> XDG_CACHE_HOME. When building Guile itself, Guile sets XDG_CACHE_HOME
> to ${top_builddir}/cache. What if we would set this ourselves for all
> packages? That way all packages could benefit from a scratch location
> when building that wouldn't propagate to the outputs.
Among all our packages, only one (glib) defines XDG_CACHE_HOME in its
build process. So I’d rather avoid defining it in gnu-build-system.
> In Fibers I have some tests that I assume get compiled. If they're not
> compiled, they go quite slow (260s vs 5s). Alternately I could add a
> XDG_CACHE_HOME setting in Fibers. Which should we do?
What about changing Fibers to set XDG_CACHE_HOME upon ‘make check’?
This is a good way to ensure that the tests are indeed getting compiled,
and not specifically on Guix.
Cheers,
Ludo’.
