Hello Bill, On 06/06/2025 21:00, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:Hi, finally I found some time to write a working patch.I am ready to write such a C patch. Is that okay with you ?Depends on messy it is, I guess ? The problem is that once packages start to use that patch, I cannot just drop the patch if it fails to apply to a new upstream version.I try to make it not Debian specific (ie, it is applicable to upstream version in its main part), minimal, and clean (not messy). Note the the patch apply to the Debian source gap-4.140-3, namely the one currently in Sid. Second, after applying the patch, the `configure' and `src/config.h.in' files must be regenerated. This can be done by launching `autogen.sh'.Hello Jerome, could you describe the use case ? This is unclear to me.
The GAP package guava gives us a use case. The GAP package guava installs a couple of binary executables. As such these executables are architecture dependent, so they can not be put in /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/ , which is architecture independent. However they are not built upon the gap kernel so we can not put these executables in /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/<<GAPInfo.Architecture>> either because the "GAP multi arch tuple" (that is `GAPInfo.Architecture`) reflects a GAP specific hierarchy that is different from the Debian multi-arch hierarchy. In fact, these executables must be installed with respect to the Debian multi-arch hierarchy scheme and they must be reachable from within GAP since these executables are called by GAP procedures. The solution suggested by this patch is to set up a /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/<<Debian triplet>> where those kind of executables can find a place. This suggestion respects both the GAP scheme and the Debian scheme. Note also that the way that the patch implements and uses GAPInfo.HostMultiArchTuple (namely DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH for Debian systems) follows the way that GAP implements and uses GAPInfo.Architecture. Best wishes, Jerome
Cheers, Bill.
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