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[PATCH] guix: parallelize building the manual-database

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Cc: 36630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#36630] [PATCH] guix: parallelize building the manual-database
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:46:18 +0200

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab <at> web.de> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Did you try the ‘guix environment -n’ command above?  Doesn’t it show
>> the manual-database.drv?
>
> It does show the manual database, but then running guix build
> /gnu/....drv --check does not run my changed code.
>
> I’m doing
>
> time ./pre-inst-env guix build /gnu/store/jnkxwwxk71n07fs6naa11fxmg3vpnnb3-manual-database.drv --check
>
> But it runs the installed guix, not the local changes to profile.scm.

Right, sorry for being unclear: you need to run

  ./pre-inst-env guix environment -n …

That will run you modified code and thus create a manual-database.drv
that uses your code; it’s this manual-database.drv that you should pass
to ‘guix build’.

HTH,
Ludo’.

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