From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add node. Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:36:15 -0500 Message-ID: <87ha32c9eo.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87oaxaghuf.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1k9M-00080m-Ow for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:34:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1k9H-0001CV-Bx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:34:12 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]:42307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X1k9H-0001CJ-6u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:34:07 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id y20so7413580ier.40 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:34:06 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87oaxaghuf.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Cyrill Schenkel Cc: Guix-devel Cyrill Schenkel writes: > +By default the `gnu-build-system' tries to run the configure script with > +bash. This doesn't work because the node configure script is written in > +python. > + > +This patch is a small hack which redirects the original content of the > +configure script to python in a bash compatible manner. Instead of patching the configure script, why not replace the default configure step with one that calls python instead? This is done e.g. in the "petsc" package. -- Eric Bavier Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html