#11246: flint-1.5.0.p5's extraneous #includes break typedef ulong in sys/types.h
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Reporter: dimpase | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: packages | Keywords: cygwin
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman | Author: Dima Pasechnik
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by kcrisman):
> Well, I didn't set the ticket to "needs work", though the more I think
about it, the more I'm convinced we shouldn't start(?) accepting code that
literally sets up traps the next ones touching the spkg can easily step
into, with the potential to cause virtually any kind of obscure, hardly
backtraceable error or malfunction.
You may be right.
> Murphy's Law tells us it ''will'' happen, sooner or later... And all
just because someone omitted -- knowingly -- a few simple error checks...
:D
Except for the fact that in this case the reviewer at least did it
''un''knowingly. Which is the fundamental difference between Sage and
most other OS projects - the developers are mostly mathematicians first,
programmers second (or third, or `n`th). My apologies for not being a
shell script ninja ;)
> Procrastination makes things never happen.
Precisely! That is why I reviewed this ticket positively - if I'd waited
for someone who knew enough about shell to check whether it did more than
work correctly it would have never been reviewed :)
>
> I would if I only could, but I fortunately^TM^ lack suitable Windows
versions to run a recent Cygwin on. ;-)
Ah, another chicken-and-egg problem...
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