Subject: Re: [bug#27344] [PATCH 06/12] gnu: Add freehdl.

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:20:19 +0200

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:50:36 +0300
Theodoros Foradis <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic writes:
> 
> >> +    (inputs
> >> +     `(("perl" ,perl)))  
> >
> > Does that actually get referred in the final derivation?  What part of perl does it link?  
> 
> One of the output files (/bin/gvhdl) is actually a perl script so it
> calls out to perl. Should perl not be an input?

It depends.  Does the first line of the installed program /gnu/store/*freehdl*/bin/gvhdl refer to /gnu/store/*perl*/bin/perl ?  If so then yes, it should be an input.