From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add octave and dependencies Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:42:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20140125164217.GA21259@debian> References: <1390507648-21659-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <1390507648-21659-3-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <8761p8ulih.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125161456.GA31777@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W76Jl-00019Z-Uu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:42:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W76Je-0002rL-Lz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:42:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140125161456.GA31777@jocasta.intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington 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