Re: 04/05: gnu: swig: Patch for Octave 4.4.

[Kei Kebreau]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kei Kebreau) writes:
>
>> kkebreau pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 3771000f893d4b53e302f5bca07afeba69e76cd4
>> Author: Kei Kebreau <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Fri May 25 22:25:21 2018 -0400
>>
>>     gnu: swig: Patch for Octave 4.4.
>
> On the core-updates branch, "guix refresh -l swig" reports that updating
> swig requires 1453 rebuilds.  That's too many, so I reverted it.
>
> Instead, I suggest creating a different 'swig' package for octave that
> inherits from the primary one and adds this patch.
>
> What do you think?
>
>       Mark

I agree that this will work. Is the attached patch something like what
you're thinking?

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