Re: [PATCH] gnu: boost: Allow for customizable build flags.

[Thompson, David]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> David Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
>>
>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost)[arguments]: Extract build flags to 
>> #:make-flags argument.
>
> If I understand correctly, this moves the let-bound “build-flags” to
> regular make-flags and reuses the default mechanism for passing
> make-flags, right?

Yes, exactly.  With it I can easily create things like a statically
linked variant.

~283 packages will need to rebuilt with this change, so maybe
core-updates would be a good place to put this?  Or would it be
core-updates-next?  I'm not sure anymore. :)

Thanks!

- Dave