Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a generalized `wrap-language-programs`

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:58:45PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> > You may try e.g. scons, pip, sphinx, or youtube-dl.
> 
> Hartmut was kind enough to suggest the above python applications to test
> this `wrap-language-programs` patch set against, however I have been
> stuck in "Rebuild the world"-hell for the last day and a half setting up
> testcases.
> 
> I end up feeling a bit desesperated and incompetent, as I'm sure it's
> not supposed to be this hard to create an appropriate test scenario here
> — so I was wondering whether anyone has any pointers in avoiding
> constantly rebuilding the world?

Most of the Guix distribution depends on Perl, and most of the rest
depends on Python ;)

Try `guix refresh -l perl`.

So, changing the build systems for these languages will require you to
rebuild almost everything.

Changes like this will need to go on the core-updates branch, where we
make changes to the core of the system.

You could create a separate perl-test-build-system and use it for your
test packages.