01/09: gnu: coreutils: Drop dependency on libcap when cross-compiling.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.

commit 62ea8865257a156625554dfd1e0418dc220e3c20
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Sep 4 11:56:51 2015 +0200

    gnu: coreutils: Drop dependency on libcap when cross-compiling.
    
    * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[inputs]: Drop LIBCAP
      when (%current-target-system) is true.
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index f043f82..00571a8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -249,7 +249,12 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (inputs `(("acl"  ,acl)                        ; TODO: add SELinux
              ("gmp"  ,gmp)                        ;bignums in 'expr', yay!
-             ("libcap" ,libcap)))    ;capability support is 'ls','dir', 'vdir'
+
+             ;; Drop the dependency on libcap when cross-compiling since it's
+             ;; not quite cross-compilable.
+             ,@(if (%current-target-system)
+                   '()
+                   `(("libcap" ,libcap)))))  ;capability support is 'ls', etc.
    (native-inputs
     ;; Perl is needed to run tests in native builds, and to run the bundled
     ;; copy of help2man.  However, don't pass it when cross-compiling since