On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:46:17AM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote: > >- GT.M is written in Mumps and thusly needs to be compiled > > by a Mumps compiler > > > >- this presents a chicken-egg problem in that Debian does > > not allow packages to be included without compiling them > > from source > > [KSB2] GT.M is almost entirely written in C with a few small bits in > assembler.
That makes it a lot easier. > Some utility programs are written in MUMPS. Are those needed to build GT.M ? > When building GT.M, some C source programs are generated from text files > using a MUMPS program - Are those files *required* to build GT.M ? > this is where GT.M is used to build GT.M, and > it is a text to text transformation. How much data are we talking about ? > However, I don't really understand the problem with bootstrapping. > It only needs to be done once and that bootstrap has already been > accomplished. No it hasn't (as far as Debian is concerned) or else there would be an installable Debian package for bootstrapping GT.M. I might be wrong. If so, please point me to the DFSG compatible package I can install to either bootstrap a GT.M or a DFSG-compliantly valid GT.M package. The "problem" with bootstrapping is that Debian does not allow to use "foreign" binaries (that is, binaries not buildable on Debian) in order to build packages. > In my opinion, if you really want to eliminate the bootstrap, We/I don't want to eliminate it. We want to get it done because we have to if we want to have GT.M on Debian. > the obvious solution is to use awk or perl for the small > number of files involved. For example. That is one of the options I am trying to assess how complicated it would be. > Or, for the initial bootstrap, just take the generated C > files from an existing GT.M for the bootstrap. Since those *are* source code I wonder whether that might be compliant with DFSG. Anyone ? BTW: In case all this has already been solved in an existing, compliant Debian (pre-)package we would surely like to know about it ! Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
