build systems cannot set default outputs other than "out"

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  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Ricardo Wurmus
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 28 May 2020 00:02
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For the haskell-build-system I want to offer two outputs by default:
"out" and "static". However, the build system has no way to override
the default as (@ (guix packages) package->bag) passes the package’s
“outputs” value to make-bag.

When the package doesn’t define a value for “outputs”, the default
'("out") is used. I suggest removing the default value from the
<package> record, so that the build system defaults have a chance.

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 31 May 2020 23:16
(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)(address . 41569@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

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> For the haskell-build-system I want to offer two outputs by default:
> "out" and "static". However, the build system has no way to override
> the default as (@ (guix packages) package->bag) passes the package’s
> “outputs” value to make-bag.

Ah.

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> When the package doesn’t define a value for “outputs”, the default
> '("out") is used. I suggest removing the default value from the
> <package> record, so that the build system defaults have a chance.

Problem is, we don’t want to add an ‘outputs’ line to each and every
package definition. So how can we deal with that?

We could have a special trick where ‘outputs’ defaults to a special
value and ‘package-outputs’ actually asks the build system what the
default outputs are.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.
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