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[PATCH] Enable cross-compilation for the pyproject-build-system.

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Message #53 received at 60847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 60847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60847: [PATCH] Enable cross-compilation for the
 pyproject-build-system.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:13:12 -0500

Hello Christopher,

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:

[...]

>> Thanks for tipping in.  The end goal is to avoid loosing the information
>> of which inputs are native (build inputs) vs regular in the bag, and yes
>> bag->cross-derivation allows that.  It appears to me the distinction in
>> the bag representations (native vs cross) was originally perceived
>> useful as some kind of optimization (there's less variables to worry
>> about, and we can squash the inputs/search-paths together, since they're
>> all native anyway), but this information (currently discarded) ends up
>> being very useful even on the build side (to wrap only the target
>> inputs, say, and not all the native/build inputs).
>>
>> So yes, the change long term would be to integrate the
>> bag->cross-derivation logic into bag->derivation, at which point it
>> would be unified for any type of build (the bag representation would be
>> shared between native and cross builds).
>
> Thanks for the explanation, so maybe an alternative to trying to get
> bag->derivation to function differently for different build systems
> would be to push combining the inputs down in to each build system.
>
> Take the gnu-build-system as an example, gnu-build in (guix build-system
> gnu) would be changed to take multiple lists of inputs, rather than a
> single list. It can then combine the lists of inputs as is done in
> bag->derivation, to avoid affecting any packages.
>
> While this does require changing all the build systems, I think it's a
> bit more forward thinking compared to trying to add a kludge in to
> bag->derivation, since hopefully the change there can be the longer term
> one.

I'll see if I have a good enough understanding of the code to make sense
of your suggestion.  I'll definitely try it!

Thanks for suggesting.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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