Subject: Re: bug#42146: [PATCH core-updates 1/?] build: substitute: Don't fail silently.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:51:40 +0200

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> From: Jakub Kądziołka <[email-masked]>
>
> Matches are not required here, as not every file will use every
> variable.
>
> * guix/build/gnu-bootstrap.scm (bootstrap-configure): Pass
>   #:require-matches? #f to substitute*.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>

To me these two special cases suggest we may discover other more cases
where it’s okay to not match and we’d think.  We’ll need a dedicated
branch built on ci.guix to assess that.

Thanks for working on it!

Ludo’.