Am I right in thinking there is no way to specify dependencies among the outputs of a single package? To specify that a package's "out" output depends on its "lib" output, for instance.
I ask because the Knot package (in gnu/package/dns.scm) builds a number of logically distinct targets---daemon, libraries, administrative utilities, general-purpose utilities, and documentation---and it would be nice to separate at least some of these into individual outputs, in part because we could then specify only the libraries as a dependency of Knot Resolver. However, Knot's daemon and utilities have the same dependency on its own libraries, so pulling those into a separate "lib" output would be liable to break everything else. I've searched and can't find an example of this being done, nor can I find any mention of it in the documentation. So I assume it's simply not possible, and you would need to define an entirely separate package that builds from the same source code---right? -- Simon South [email protected]
