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bug#52588: A linter & styler for %outputs -> #$output:...?
From: |
Maxime Devos |
Subject: |
bug#52588: A linter & styler for %outputs -> #$output:...? |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:51:36 +0000 |
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Evolution 3.38.3-1 |
Hi guix,
With the core-updates-frozen merge, some (i.e., so far one) bug reports
about cross-compilation failing due to %outputs not being defined have
been appearing: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52574.
(That particular bug was actually introduced in core-updates-frozen!)
To find out how prevalent these issues are, and to prevent them from
being introduced, a linter detecting (assoc-ref %outputs ...) in sexps
and gexps and suggesting to use #$output:... could be useful. This
should be doable with 'gexp->approximate-sexp'.
Also, maybe "guix style" could even be teached to G-expify most S-exps.
Long term, we might want to eliminate %outputs entirely, to make the
wrong thing impossible to do instead of making it easy to break cross-
compilation.
Alternatively, %outputs (& friends?) could be re-introduced,
albeit with #$output and #$(this-package-input ...) being strongly
preferred above %outputs & %build-inputs & friends.
Reintroducing %build-inputs/%build-target-inputs/... could help with
the ‘how do I refer to implicit build inputs from #:configure-flags’
issues that have been cropping up.
Greetings,
Maxime.
- bug#52588: A linter & styler for %outputs -> #$output:...?,
Maxime Devos <=