Re: [PATCH] Update gd and php

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 05:12:46PM +0100, julien lepiller wrote:
>> How do you make php use gd-2.2.4, then? It needs to be updated too because
>> the security issues with gd are still present in our current php package.
>
> It seems that gd-for-php gets replaced by gd-2.2.4 now:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages php) gd-for-php)'
> /gnu/store/xg2r8hk5axfq7xk1aj9ql5ncgkpnh0vk-gd-2.2.4
>
> But, building PHP with --dry-run implies that address@hidden will be used.
>
> I think that we need to set (replacement #f) in gd-for-php, so that PHP
> is built with address@hidden, which will then be grafted to refer to gd-2.2.4
> in the built output of PHP.
>
> I'm a little unsure. Does anyone have advice?

If gd-for-php has #f as its replacement, then nothing will be grafted to
replace it.

Or am I missing something?

Ludo’.