Subject: [bug#72674] [PATCH] gnu: guix: Remove unnecessary dependencies.

From: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:13:57 +0200

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi!

> Removing this extra dependencies make it simpler to build the ‘guix’
> package in particular on less-capable systems like i586-gnu.

> As Janneke noted in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72643#7-lineno16>,
> the new imagemagick dependency made it harder to get ‘guix’ built on
> i586-gnu.  It’s also unnecessary.

Nice catch!

> diff --git a/manifest.scm b/manifest.scm
> index 7e4d82c3a5..27e1d62566 100644
> --- a/manifest.scm
> +++ b/manifest.scm
> @@ -24,11 +24,25 @@
>  ;;
>  ;;     guix shell --pure -m manifest.scm hello ...
>  
> +(use-modules (guix packages))
> +
>  (concatenate-manifests
> - (list (package->development-manifest (specification->package "guix"))
> + (list (package->development-manifest
> +        (let ((guix (specification->package "guix")))
> +          (package/inherit guix
> +            ;; Replace with non-minimal Graphviz for PDF support.
> +            (native-inputs (modify-inputs (package-native-inputs guix)
> +                             (replace "graphviz"
> +                               (specification->package "graphviz")))))))
> +
>         ;; Extra packages used by unit tests.
>         (specifications->manifest (list "gnupg"))
>  
> +       ;; Packages needed for 'make dist' and 'make distcheck'.
> +       (specifications->manifest
> +        (list "imagemagick"
> +              "perl"))
> +

Would it be overkill to avoid this for target-hurd?, someting like

      (use-modules (guix utils)
      ;; ...
      (specifications->manifest
       (if (target-hurd?)
           '()
           (list "imagemagick"
                 "perl"))

Maybe it's premature; as I'm not even sure if fails to builds natively;
some of its dependencies don't cross-build, but it may just build on the
Hurd?  I haven't built a guix checkout in a childhurd for some time...

Greetings,
Janneke

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