While investigating our other problem, I found this one, so here is a patch.
There is a circular dependency between glibc-hurd-headers and hurd-minimal, where one expects the other, while only the later needs the former.
From 744e51fc7f61685fd6785a64cefbaeb3cf87d2ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manolis Ragkousis <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 17:22:43 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: base: Avoid circular dependency among glibc-hurd-headers and hurd-minimal. There is a circular dependency between glibc-hurd-headers and hurd-minimal, where one expects the other, while only the later needs the former. * gnu/packages/base.scm (glibc/hurd-headers): Add correct propagated-inputs. --- gnu/packages/base.scm | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index 0c6422d..5256354 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -758,6 +758,8 @@ command.") (package (inherit glibc/hurd) (name "glibc-hurd-headers") (outputs '("out")) + (propagated-inputs `(("gnumach-headers" ,gnumach-headers) + ("hurd-headers" ,hurd-headers))) (arguments (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments glibc/hurd) ;; We just pass the flags really needed to build the headers. -- 2.4.1
