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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: How to handle circular build dependencies?
From:       Markku Korkeala <markku.korkeala () iki ! fi>
Date:       2020-01-29 19:32:46
Message-ID: 689e83d507eed9aef9fd97e1a28d5115 () iki ! fi
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Richard W.M. Jones kirjoitti 27.1.2020 22:35:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 06:43:36PM +0200, Markku Korkeala wrote:
> I think it's Perl where IIRC the package can be configured
> as a bootstrap package (by setting an RPM variable), built
> that way, the dependencies are then built, then the perl
> package is flipped back to non-bootstrap mode and built a
> second time against those just built dependencies.
> 
> If you do it all in a side tag then no one will see the
> intermediate packages.
> 
>> I know I can update clojure to certain alpha version,
>> which the new libraries require. Then build those,
>> and when they are accepted then upgrade the
>> clojure package, and then upgrade those libraries, etc. But
>> it is tedious. I'm hoping there would be a better
>> way :)
> 
> Is it possible to build a "cut down" clojure which
> doesn't need the dependencies (ie that would be the
> bootstrap version)?
> 
>> And also do I have to do that bootstrapping
>> again when building clojure for example EPEL-8?
> 
> Probably :-)
> 
> IMHO it helps to script Koji builds.  We don't have any official
> tooling for that as far as I'm aware, but various people have built
> unofficial tools including me (see
> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/goals-an-experimental-new-tool-which-generalizes-make/
> http://git.annexia.org/?p=fedora-ocaml-rebuild.git;a=summary)
> 
> Rich.

Hi,

thanks for all the suggestions and links. It should be possible to
build "cut down" clojure, but might require too much effort. I think
I'll study the problem little bit more and see also how the Debian
maintainers solved this issue.

-- 
Markku
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