Subject: [bug#52730] [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins/selection: Make #:configure-flags optional.

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:46:31 +0200

Hi Jack,

Am Freitag, dem 24.12.2021 um 00:17 -0500 schrieb Jack Hill:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, dem 21.12.2021 um 22:34 -0500 schrieb Jack Hill:
> > > * gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm (gst-plugins/selection): Provide the
> > > empyt list as a default value for #:configure-flags.
> 
> > The current implementation ought to copy pre-existing configure-
> > flags
> > as-is if you don't supply flags on your own.  I personally believe
> > that's preferable over an empty value, that will probably be reset.
> > WDYT?
> 
> Yes, I agree that the current implementation ought to, but it
> doesn't. 
> Instead it complains:
> 
> """
> ice-9/psyntax.scm:2794:12: In procedure syntax-violation:
> Syntax error:
> unknown location: quote: bad syntax in form quote
> """
Is this still an issue?  Also try staging, which has gstreamer 1.20 and
some gexp-improvements for gst-plugins/selection.

Cheers