Re: Any volunteer to remove csh dependency of mummer [mummer is marked for autoremoval from testing]
Hi Étienne,
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:54:07PM +0200, etienne.mollier@mailoo.org wrote:
> > Let's see what I agreed to... :)
>
> I had a look at the mummer package, and actually everything
> seems to be already in place to remove the dependency on csh.
> The Med Team did all the hard work in the past already.
>
> There is indeed one ugly "ERROR" showing up when running the
> build time test. Actually, the "check" target of the Makefile
> is misleading, because it is intended by the author to be a
> target to check for availability of build dependencies before
> building, instead of serving the purpose of running test at
> build time as usual.
>
> Just in case, I patched the Makefile to remove the check on Csh
> since it is not needed in the Debian release of MUMmer, and also
> hunted down the few invocations of csh in the Makefiles which
> were triggering some "csh not found" errors during the build.
> All this is available in a branch "csh-mig" in the mummer
> repository on Salsa, which can be merged if think it would be
> most welcome for the package maintenance.
Sounds very good - but I think you forgot to push this new branch.
> Maybe this issue just needed one more pair of eyeballs, but of
> course there is always the possibility I completely missed the
> point.
Thanks a lot for your work on this
Andreas.
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