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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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:
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>>>>>>> * 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.
>
>>>>> 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'.