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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch | 18 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch index c850974404..b2e5141563 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +This provides a Guile reimplementation of clar's "generate.py". +It makes it possible for us to remove Python from libgit2's build-time +dependencies. +libgit2 is used in order to fetch a lot of sources for guix packages. +Both Python2 and Python3 builds acted up in the past. +Hence this patch which makes the number of libgit2 dependencies very +small. +The reimplementation tries to keep as close as possible to the original +in both structure and runtime effect. Some things are thus overly +convoluted just to make them the same as in the original. + +Both implementations basically do: + +grep -r 'test_.*__.*' . > clar.suite + +It is important that the directory traversal order of the original and +the reimplementation stay the same. + diff -ruN orig/libgit2-0.27.7/tests/CMakeLists.txt libgit2-0.27.7/tests/CMakeLists.txt --- orig/libgit2-0.27.7/tests/CMakeLists.txt 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ libgit2-0.27.7/tests/CMakeLists.txt 2019-03-04 11:13:06.640118979 +0100 |