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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add fpc. (version 2)
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add fpc. (version 2) |
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Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:59:16 +0100 |
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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
>>+ (copy-file (assoc-ref inputs "fpc-binary")
>>+ "fpc-bin.tar")
>>+ (zero? (system* "tar" "xvf" "fpc-bin.tar")))))
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> Why the copy-file and then untar ? Can't it be untarred immediately from
> where it is? If it is useful, maybe add a comment about the reason.
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> Also, it might be easier to have a fpc-bootstrap package with the bootstrap
> binaries that installs the binaries required to build fpc normally and to
> make a fpc package depend on fpc-bootstrap as native-inputs. What do you
> think? I myself don't have a strong preference about it - but some other
> packages do it that way.
It’s not so nice to depend on a binary bootstrap. Can this be avoided?
I tried packaging a version of the GNU Pascal compiler, which is
unmaintained, in an effort to bootstrap a version of FPC from source.
Have you attempted this?
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