Re: Packages depending on (guix build syscalls)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skriver:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Quite a few packages depend on (guix build syscalls), starting from
>>> ‘ant-bootstrap’ (since commit cded3a759356ff66b7df668bcdbdfa0daf96f4c5
>>> in 2018) up to GNOME-related packages such as ‘mutter’ (commit
>>> d1c2fe248a7a326189fb7dcae64a59ece96251ba a few months ago).
>
> It seems the usage of (guix build syscalls) in java.scm and
> ant-build-system is solely for 'mkdtemp!'.  Guile 3.0.6 gained
> 'mkdtemp', so I suppose we can switch to that?

I think so.

> If there are backwards-compatibility concerns it seems possible to
> modify these procedures to not need to 'mkdtemp' at all.
>
> I can prepare a patch along these lines, but not sure if we need to
> maintain backward compatibility in (gnu packages).

In (gnu packages)?

The only thing to keep in mind is that (guix build gnu-build-system) is
used by packages in commencement.scm, which run on Guile 2.0; thus
gnu-build-system.scm cannot rely on features that appeared in Guile 3.0.
However, for ant-build-system.scm it’s fine to rely on those.

Thanks,
Ludo’.