From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: 24433@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24433: fish needs to have bc in propagated-inputs
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:57:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfbZaR+kSi4eH5Gs-dnTJ4SPhzQS4n9O2NoekC0d2ZuWaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7d1k6zx32.fsf@systemreboot.net>
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:
>
> 'fish' needs 'bc' as a propagated input. I have noticed runtime errors
> due to absence of bc. It's also mentioned here:
>
> https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell#runtime-dependencies
>
> Quoting the relevant paragraph:
>
> "fish requires a number of utilities to operate, which should be present
> on any Unix, GNU/Linux or OS X system. These include (but are not
> limited to) hostname, grep, awk, sed, which, and getopt. fish also
> requires the bc program."
A runtime dependency does *not* mean that an input should be
propagated. Propagation is a solution of last resort.
Instead, try finding the places where 'bc' is referenced in the fish
source and replace it with the absolute path to the binary.
Thanks,
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-14 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-14 8:48 bug#24433: fish needs to have bc in propagated-inputs Arun Isaac
2016-09-14 13:57 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2016-09-15 6:23 ` Arun Isaac
2016-09-16 21:00 ` bug#24433: Arun Isaac
2016-09-16 21:00 ` bug#24433: [PATCH] gnu: fish: Add input bc Arun Isaac
2016-09-25 22:07 ` Arun Isaac
2016-10-04 9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-04 14:19 ` Arun Isaac
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