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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:42:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140125164217.GA21259@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140125161456.GA31777@jocasta.intra>

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:14:57PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> The octave build system is rather naive.  These propagated inputs don't actually
> *need* to be present at configure/build time.  But the ./configure (rather stupidly IMO)
> checks for their presence, and turns off the relevant features if they are not found.
> Therefore, one must declare them as native-inputs just to keep ./configure happy AND
> as propagated inputs because they are called in a pipe from the octave program itself.

Would it be reasonable to patch the lines in which external programs are
called, replacing the program name by its complete path with a well-chosen
(substitute*)?
Then one would not need to propagate the inputs.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-25 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-23 20:07 [PATCH 1/3] gnu: libxft: Propagate input John Darrington
2014-01-23 20:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: fltk: New module John Darrington
2014-01-24 16:07   ` Thompson, David
2014-01-25  7:00     ` [PATCH 2/2] " John Darrington
2014-01-25  8:27       ` (unknown), John Darrington
2014-01-25  8:27         ` [PATCH] gnu: fltk: New module John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:39           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-23 20:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:30   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25 16:14     ` John Darrington
2014-01-25 16:42       ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2014-01-25 17:04         ` John Darrington
2014-01-25 20:41           ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-26  7:38             ` John Darrington
2014-01-26  9:09               ` (unknown), John Darrington
2014-01-26  9:09                 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add gnuplot John Darrington
2014-01-26 20:17                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-26 18:54               ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies Andreas Enge
2014-01-26 19:30                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27  8:30                   ` John Darrington
2014-01-27  9:11                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-29  8:20                       ` John Darrington
2014-01-29 21:26                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27  9:04                   ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-01-27  9:53                     ` Installing a C tool chain Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 10:32                       ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-02-04  6:31                       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-04-05 20:44                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 17:54                           ` Andreas Enge
2014-04-14 19:16                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 19:43                               ` Andreas Enge
2014-04-14 21:32                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-14 21:57                                   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-01-24 13:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: libxft: Propagate input Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25  7:01   ` [PATCH 1/2] " John Darrington
2014-01-25 15:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-25 15:38       ` Ludovic Courtès

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