Subject: Re: [bug#37924] [PATCH 2/2] ci: Add 'make-gcc-toolchain' packages

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:22:04 +0100

Hi,

Carl Dong <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/ci.scm (%core-packages): Add 'glibc-2.28', a toolchain with
> default 'gcc', and a toolchain targeting 'glibc-2.28'.

The problem is ‘%core-packages’ is only built when we explicitly choose
the “core” subset in CI (which we do only when experimenting with
‘core-updates’ early on); in other cases, all the public packages get
built and ‘%core-packages’ does not matter.

Would it be an option to have:

  (define-public gcc/glibc-2.28
    (make-gcc-libc gcc glibc-2.28))

in (gnu packages base), or does that create circular dependency issues
(I don’t think so, but better be safe)?

If we did that, that package would automatically picked up in CI.

Thanks,
Ludo’.