Re: Shall we merge wip-gnome3.30 to core-updates?

[Kei Kebreau]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:09:47PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>>> Hello again Marius,
>>> 
>>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>> > Hi Kei,
>>> >
>>> > Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:
>>> >
>> <...>
>>> 
>>> * The samba package seems to require the "rpcgen" binary as part of its
>>> build process, but I don't know which package includes that binary. I
>>> know it appears somewhere in the process of building the "gcc-toolchain"
>>> package, but I'd rather not include that whole package if it isn't
>>> necessary.
>>
>>
>> rpcgen seems to be in glibc

I saw that too, but running "guix build glibc" gives a glibc without the
"rpcgen" binary.

>
> Not since commit 3670ea70e2e932969a3ffc0acf75a714c7b42540 ;-)

Aha!

>
> This patch allows Samba to build.  Other distributions seem to give
> Samba libtirpc as input too, so I haven't finished investigating yet:
>
...
> @Kei: If you have tested this branch elsewhere, I think it's okay to
> merge even if it does not yet build on 'core-updates'.

Great! I'll give the branch a test on top of "master" first.

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