Re: Circular dependency with LDC and Phobos

[Pjotr Prins]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:18:37PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > My question is how to do this last one in the best way because I don't
> > see any precedents in the gnu/package sources.
> 
> > 1. Write a source package for phobos and make it available in the build 
> > phase of
> >    the other package ldc
> > 2. Fix git recursive downloads
> > 3. Allow multiple source downloads in one package
> 
> Take a look at the “icedtea7” package in “java.scm”.  There we download
> a bunch of additional sources.  They are simply added to the inputs.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo

Thanks Ricardo. That is an interesting package! Talking about
complicated deployment...

Pj.
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