GNU bug report logs - #59126
[PATCH] gnu: go-github-com-zenhack-go-notmuch: Use UNGEXP-NATIVE with NOTMUCH-FIXTURES.

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: "(" <paren <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 59126-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#59126] [PATCH] gnu: go-github-com-zenhack-go-notmuch: Use
 UNGEXP-NATIVE with NOTMUCH-FIXTURES.
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:09:00 +0000

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"(" <paren <at> disroot.org> writes:

> On Sun Nov 20, 2022 at 11:28 AM GMT, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> I can guess at why you might be wanting to change this, but I'm
>> interested in what your actual reasoning is (and it's good if this is in
>> the commit message to)?
>
> Well, since NOTMUCH-FIXTURES is just an origin, it won't differ on
> different systems. So, we don't need to cross-compile it, because a
> non-cross-compiled version will work just as well. But Guix has no
> way of knowing this, so if we use UNGEXP, it'll re-build the origin
> unnecessarily. If we use UNGEXP-NATIVE, it'll just use the host's
> NOTMUCH-FIXTURES.

Thanks. And yeah, given notmuch-fixtures is just an origin, maybe this
just does make sense without any extra explaination.

I've gone ahead and pushed this to master as
cfec9f055272feb6fca8c52ba92c8e7d831052ac.

Chris

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