#20381: Patch to brial to get it building again on Cygwin
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Reporter: embray | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-7.2
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: cygwin windows | Merged in:
brial | Reviewers:
Authors: Erik Bray | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: u/gouezel/brial- | 84b0513a4055a606716b74863dcc78d49e8235a7
cygwin-patch | Stopgaps:
Dependencies: |
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Comment (by embray):
> In general, to compile a program from source, you don't need autotools,
just run ./configure and make
It depends. My confusion perhaps stems from the fact that some (probably
most?) projects include `./configure` in their source tarballs, but some
don't.
> If some patches to this source package are needed for sage, they will be
added just before build
There are some exceptions, which is another source of my confusion. For
example [http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/build/pkgs/ecl?h=develop
ecl] has patches that are applied to the source tarball before uploading
to sage's package mirrors. I guessed that maybe the same was being done
for brial but I was wrong in this case. What's further confusing is that
although the separate `brial/patches/build/` patches ''exist'' in the
repository, nothing ever seems to apply them (I was expecting to find
maybe an `spkg-src` script that applies them). I sort of get the point
though--it's just demonstrating what would be patched before running
`autoreconf` or the like. *shrug*
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20381#comment:22>
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