From 6a715a00d306fe2fe6bca3be31b209bf7ea9bf01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny Milosavljevic Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:55:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libgit2: Add comments. * gnu/packages/patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch: Add comments. --- .../patches/libgit2-avoid-python.patch | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) 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