#14636: ECL spkg : dirty workarounds?
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Reporter: Snark | Owner: jdemeyer
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-pending
Component: packages: standard | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Changes (by Snark):
* status: new => needs_review
Old description:
> My debian/sage experiments have uncovered two problems with sage's ecl
> package:
>
> (1) it is compiled with unicode disabled ; this is to avoid errors, like
> those which can be read about in [https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-
> gentoo/issues/2 this gentoo report]. But that doesn't look like a real
> solution! Wouldn't it be possible to add a conversion step somewhere to
> make sage work with an unicode-enabled unicode? or what about ecl's
> --output-encoding argument?
>
> (2) I'm annoyed by the fact that SIGCHLD was disabled by directly
> patching the sources (see `patches/disable_sigchdl_handler.patch`) --
> wouldn't it be possible to change this by modifying an rc file or some
> such, whose path would be given to ecl at startup?
New description:
My debian/sage experiments have uncovered two problems with sage's ecl
package:
(1) it is compiled with unicode disabled ; this is to avoid errors, like
those which can be read about in [https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-
gentoo/issues/2 this gentoo report]. But that doesn't look like a real
solution! Wouldn't it be possible to add a conversion step somewhere to
make sage work with an unicode-enabled unicode? or what about ecl's
--output-encoding argument?
(2) I'm annoyed by the fact that SIGCHLD was disabled by directly patching
the sources (see `patches/disable_sigchdl_handler.patch`) -- wouldn't it
be possible to change this by modifying an rc file or some such, whose
path would be given to ecl at startup?
'''TO REVIEW'''
* compile ecl-12.12.1.p4.spkg
* apply trac_14636_sigchld.patch to the sage library
* recompile the sage library
* run the long tests
* confirm it's ok
'''AFTER APPLYING'''
* remove those two paragraphs
* add a nice '''DONE''' to the (1) point above
* put the ticket as new again, as there is still point (2) to clear before
actually closing
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14636#comment:14>
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