GNU bug report logs - #53878
[PATCH 00/11] Update Racket to 8.4. Adjust Chez Scheme

Previous Next

Full log

Message #88 received at 53878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at>
To: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>, 53878 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] gnu: chez-scheme: Explicitly package bootstrap
 bootfiles.
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:54:55 +0100

Am Sonntag, dem 13.02.2022 um 16:51 -0500 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> This might seem a bit silly in isolation, but it makes the structure
> of the upstream Chez Scheme package the same as for the Racket
> variant, it sets things up for (one day, hopefully) actually being
> able to bootstrap the upstream Chez Scheme bootfiles, and it may be
> useful for cross-compilation and adding support for architectures
> without pre-built bootfiles from upstream.
> 
> * gnu/packages/chez-and-racket-bootstrap.scm
> (chez-scheme-bootstrap-bootfiles): New variable.
> (chez-scheme)[native-inputs]: Add it.
> [arguments]: Add new phase 'unpack-bootfiles'.
> [version, source, home-page]: Derive from 'chez-scheme-bootstrap-
> bootfiles'.
> ---
While having chez-scheme-bootstrap-bootfiles (silly name) does make
some kind of sense, making chez-scheme inherit from it does not.  Given
that we don't have a chez-scheme bootstrap tower at hand, you should
probably make (chez-scheme-bootstrap) a procedure which takes chez-
scheme's origin as argument and returns the full package.


Also, while technically a violation of the DRY principle, you are
allowed to type out the homepage multiple times.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.