Subject: Re: [bug#39579] [PATCH 1/3] gnu: osinfo-db-tools: Add osinfo-db-tools.

From: Jakub Kądziołka <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:56:35 +0100

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 08:10:18PM +0100, Jakub Kądziołka wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:37:09PM +0100, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
> > +(define-public osinfo-db-tools
> > +  (package
> > +    (name "osinfo-db-tools")
> > +    (version "1.7.0")
> > +    (source (origin
> > +              (method url-fetch)
> > +              (uri (string-append "https://releases.pagure.org/libosinfo/osinfo-db-tools-"
> > +                                  version ".tar.xz"))
> > +
> > +              (sha256
> > +               (base32
> > +                "08x8mrafphyll0d35xdc143rip3ahrz6bmzhc85nwhq7yk2vxpab"))))
> > +    (build-system meson-build-system)
> > +    (arguments
> > +     `(#:configure-flags
> > +       (list (string-append "--prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))))
> If I'm reading the source correctly, this argument isn't even used by
> meson-build-system. Why is this necessary?
Okay, I wasn't reading the source correctly, Vim's
search-at-word-boundaries hid the point where the variable is being
used. Still, the prefix option is already being set by
meson-build-system itself. I'm confused as to what this argument
is supposed to do.