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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm b/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm index fb6e8db88a..c8d4e7e85f 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2018 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> ;;; Copyright © 2017 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> +;;; Copyright © 2018 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -97,10 +98,10 @@ (define* (package-from-tarball name source program-to-test description #:key snippet) "Return a package that correspond to the extraction of SOURCE. -PROGRAM-TO-TEST is a program to run after extraction of SOURCE, to check -whether everything is alright. If SNIPPET is provided, it is evaluated after -extracting SOURCE. SNIPPET should raise an exception to signal an error; its -return value is ignored." +PROGRAM-TO-TEST is #f or a string: the program to run after extraction of +SOURCE to check whether everything is alright. If SNIPPET is provided, it is +evaluated after extracting SOURCE. SNIPPET should return true if successful, +or false to signal an error." (package (name name) (version "0") @@ -123,8 +124,9 @@ return value is ignored." (invoke tar "xvf" (string-append builddir "/binaries.tar")) ,@(if snippet (list snippet) '()) - (invoke (string-append "bin/" ,program-to-test) - "--version")))))) + (or (not ,program-to-test) + (invoke (string-append "bin/" ,program-to-test) + "--version"))))))) (inputs `(("tar" ,(search-bootstrap-binary "tar" (%current-system))) ("xz" ,(search-bootstrap-binary "xz" (%current-system))) |