[Nix-dev] recent calligra breakage - how to prevent?

[Moritz Ulrich]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

> Recently calligra broke.
>
> I'd like to introduce a simple patch like this: http://mawercer.de/tmp/calligra.patch
> It should ensure that the build fails eg if krita is missing. The
> problem was that updating eigen caused calligra to determine krita
> cannot be build, so everything else of the suite was build.
>
> Now this is a "hack" - what about being more declarative introducing
>
> mkDerivation {
>   [...]
>
>   expect.executables = ["krita" ...]
>
> }
>
> Later this could also be used for documentation purposes - eg finding
> packages which provide some specific executables.
>
> Does this already exist?
>
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I like the idea, but where do we draw the distinction between testPhase
and except(?)Phase? For small & simple (cli) programs we can just run the
executables in the testPhase.
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