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Update Julia to 1.3.1.

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Message #107 received at 38546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 38546 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#38546] [00/11] Update Julia, Fix precompilation, add HTTP.jl
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:24:52 +0100

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 16:10, Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > 1.
>> >> Do you have a special motivation to rename 'llvm-patch' to 'julia-patch'?
>> >> (I agree, it is better :-))
>> >
>> Yes, because now it's not only used by llvm-julia but also by the new
>> libunwind-julia.  So calling llvm-patch a function that takes a patch
>> from the julia repo and that is applied to a "julia module" is measleading.
>
> Ok.
>
>
>> > 2.
>> >> Well, only 2 inputs are missing. Do you think it is affordable to pack
>> >> them and so remove the commentary?
>> >>
>> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> >> ;; FIXME: The following inputs are downloaded from upstream to allow us
>> >> ;; to use the lightweight Julia release tarball.  Ideally, these inputs
>> >> ;; would eventually be replaced with proper Guix packages.
>> >> ;; Find dependencies versions here:
>> >> ;; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLang/julia/v1.3.0/deps/Versions.make
>> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I indeed tried.  The main problem is that in the Makefile there's no
>> USE_SYSTEM_{OBJCONV/LIBWHICH}, and I didn't want to mess with the it.
>> But yes, I think I could at least try again.
>
> Let me check how it will be crawled by SWH to be sure that Guix will
> be able to still build Julia 1.3 even if GitHub does not exist
> anymore.
> And I am in favour to let these 2 inputs.
>
>
>> > 3.
>> >> Otherwise, there is some issues about indentation -- I think you use
>> >> Emacs, so check that '.dir-locals.el' is correctly setup -- double
>> >> space for sentences in description,
>> >> 'patch/julia-SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH-mtime.patch' should be added with the
>> >> same commit that "Update", etc.
>> >> I have half-corrected so I can send you these 2 v2-patches if you want to. :-)
>> >
>> If you already fixed them, yes please send a v2 patch and I'll continue
>> working from there.
>
> Stay tuned. :-)
> I try to send it today...
>
Don't worry, I'm still working on my PhD thesis so my spare time until
the end of the week is low :D
>
>> Fine for me, do we need also to debug a broken test right?
>
> I do not know if the test are broken. I am not able to run them on my
> desktop machine. Not enough memory.
>
Ok, so I'll run tests a few times on my server then
>
> Cheers,
> simon

Thanks, Nicolò

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