Re: Emacs builds failing to pull changes

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 25/05/13 14:13, Glenn Morris wrote:

>> Wrt the failing dependency, I don't know much about the emacs build and its
>> dependencies, perhaps Ludo knows more about this failure?
> 
> OK, I'll cc him and ask. :)
> 
> The question is: why does the Emacs hydra build recipe list guile as a
> dependency, when Emacs does not use guile?

It's an indirect dependency.  The Emacs build depends on GnuTLS, which in turn
depends on Guile.  Since these are both optional dependencies (AFAIK), we could
disable the Guile dependency on platforms where it doesn't build.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/