Sree Harsha Totakura <sreehar...@totakura.in> writes:

> On 03/24/2014 07:07 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> This problem was introduced in d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063
>> "gnu: libffi: Leave a copy of headers where libffi.pc expects them."
>
> What we need to do here is to symlink the header files instead of the include
> directory.  This was suggested earlier here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-01/msg00213.html
>
> Ludo, please revert d43547f12d4eae19845f3bf13a53a050af965063.

Another option is to improve union.scm so that symlinks to directories
within the store are treated the same as directories.  IMO this is a
better approach.  I intend to rewrite union.scm quite soon anyway, along
the lines described in the "Optimizing union.scm" thread, unless there
are objections or better ideas.

      Mark

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