Subject: Re: [bug#55998] [PATCH] gnu: Add cctools.

From: Philip McGrath <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:09:48 -0400

On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 4:04:21 PM EDT Maxime Devos wrote:
> Philip McGrath schreef op wo 15-06-2022 om 13:15 [-0400]:
> > +      (source
> > +       (origin
> > +         (method git-fetch)
> > +         (uri (git-reference
> > +               (url "https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port")
> > +               (commit commit)))
> > +         (sha256
> 
> This contains generated files (look for 'configure' and 'Makefile.in'.
> Per standard Guix policy, things need to be built from source.  The
> autotools are no exception, see
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email-masked]/msg61160.html>.
> They need to be removed, e.g. with delete-file and find-files in a
> snippet.
> 

Doing this had the unexpected side-effect of fixing the problem finding <linux/
limits.h>!

A v2 is coming soon.

-Philip