Subject: Re: [bug#34571] [PATCH] Add micropython

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:02:36 +0100

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> writes:

> I was looking around to see if there was an alternate perl
> implementation and I ended up packaging micropython. I have no
> preference between it being in python.scm or embedded.scm

“python.scm” seems fine.

> +         (add-before 'build 'preprare-build

Typo: preprare –> prepare

> +           (lambda _
> +             (chdir "ports/unix")
> +             ;; see: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/4246
> +             (substitute* "Makefile"
> +               (("-Os") "-Os -ffp-contract=off"))
> +             #t))
> +         (delete 'configure)) ; no configure
> +       #:make-flags (list (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
> +                          "V=1")
> +       #:test-target "test"))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> +       ("python" ,python-minimal-wrapper)))

Oh, this Python needs Python…?  I think you should be using
python-wrapper here as the python-minimal variants are merely supposed
to be used for breaking a cycle in the build of Python itself.

--
Ricardo