bug#28384: [PATCH] gnu: Fix build failures caused by commit.

[Kei Kebreau]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
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>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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>>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
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>>>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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>>>>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
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>>>>>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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>>>>>>> Hi Kei,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The subject is truncated.  :-)  Caused by which commit?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (seek)[arguments]: Modify
>>>>>>>> unpack phase.
>>>>>>>> * gnu/packages/ci.scm (cuirass)[arguments]: Add patch-/bin/sh phase.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is weird, normally the ‘patch-source-shebangs’ phase, which happens
>>>>>>> right before ‘configure’, should take care of these, no?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Normally the 'patch-source-shebangs' does just that, but in this case
>>>>>> the script needs to be patched because the bootstrapping phase depends
>>>>>> on perl.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK.  I don’t understand at what point this became necessary though.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's probably a result of moving the 'bootstrap' phase before the
>>>> 'patch-source-shebangs' phase. Without this change, the seek package
>>>> builds fine. I have no preference either way, though I notice that the
>>>> same thing is done for guile-for-guile-emacs.
>>>
>>> Since this commit was just about changing the syntax, not the semantics,
>>> I would expect it to keep phases in the same order.  That would be more
>>> concise than adding custom code to patch things here and there, no?
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>
>> I agree in the case of seek.
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>>>>>> From 87ea8addad973568d8599fb93c8df9766b96b6a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>>> From: Kei Kebreau <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 11:28:42 -0400
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Use 'modify-phases' syntax.
>>>>>> To: address@hidden
>>>>>
>>>>> Wrong patch.  :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Ludo’.
>>>>
>>>> Fixed!
>>>>
>>>> From d9eee184cf80252092c34864d492527ee768a7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Kei Kebreau <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:36:28 -0400
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Fix build failures caused by commit
>>>>  d10092b849153dc27cfed0a9601fde6c7bdec918.
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (seek)[arguments]: Modify unpack phase.
>>>> * gnu/packages/ci.scm (cuirass)[arguments]: Add patch-/bin/sh phase.
>>>
>>> That’s fine with me, even though I have a slight preference for simply
>>> restoring the order of phases as it was before.
>>>
>>
>> I'm most comfortable reverting seek to its last successful state without
>> the substitute* call and patch leave the cuirass patch as is. If that's
>> okay with you I can push this to master.
>
> Sounds good, thanks!
>
> Ludo'.

Pushed to master as 4561498e1f207e83ecc4a9fe1a08935c2807160f. Thanks again!