Re: Error in compiling fontutils.scm

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> I believe this is fixed by 6d267f0.  There was a circular dependency
>> between the ghostscript and xorg modules, introduced in commit e0eb886,
>> and leading to this admittedly obscure backtrace.
>
> Excellent, thanks for your help! One suggestion: Could maybe ghostscript-
> with-x be moved to ghostscript.scm?

No, because the idea of moving it to a separate file was precisely to
get rid of the X/Ghostscript circular dependency.

> $ guix package -A ghostscript
> ghostscript     9.06.0  out     gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm:121:2
> ghostscript-with-x      9.06.0  out     gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm:121:2
>
> This is probably due to its inheritance from ghostscript in the given file.

Yes, exactly.  This can be fixed by explicitly passing a different
‘location’ field.

Ludo’.