[bug#27344] [PATCH 06/12] gnu: Add freehdl.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:50:36 +0300
Theodoros Foradis <address@hidden> wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic writes:
> 
> >> +    (inputs
> >> +     `(("perl" ,perl)))  
> >
> > Does that actually get referred in the final derivation?  What part of perl 
> > does it link?  
> 
> One of the output files (/bin/gvhdl) is actually a perl script so it
> calls out to perl. Should perl not be an input?

It depends.  Does the first line of the installed program 
/gnu/store/*freehdl*/bin/gvhdl refer to /gnu/store/*perl*/bin/perl ?  If so 
then yes, it should be an input.