Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On 08/16/2018 02:45 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mo Zhou writes ("Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0"):
>> I tried to think of applying for the access to debian's ppc64el porterbox
>> but it appears to be impossible for a normal user to install the resulting
>> package and build another package. Although maybe I can do some hacks on
>> PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH but that's dirty.
> 
> This looks quite annoying.  The basic pattern here is that the porter
> may need to install modified build-deps.  This seems like it must come
> up all the time.  DSA, do you have any suggestions ?
> 
I believe tricks with env vars are indeed the usual way to play with
something like that.  Porter boxes don't lend themselves well to
installing untrusted packages.

Cheers,
Julien