Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add cmake.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Cyril Roelandt <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 03/14/2013 06:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> Ideally all patches should eventually be submitted upstream, but
>> sometimes it’s not desirable, because the changes would too specific or
>> intrusive.  State it in the patch if that is the case.
>>
>
> Here, these tests require network connectivity, so I don't think
> upstream will accept the patches.

Ah OK.  Then just specify it in the patch header.

>> Other than that, looks good to me, so feel free to push then.
>>
>> It would be great to have a ‘cmake-build-system’, which would be based
>> on ‘gnu-build-system’ but with specific ‘configure’ and ‘test’ phases.
>> See guix/build-system/perl.scm and related files for an example.  :-)
>>
>
> I'll have to try and package a piece of software requiring cmake, then :)

Of course!  :-)

Ludo’.