Bug#845614: RFS: acorn/4.0.3-1

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

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Hi
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>https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/acorn/acorn_4.0.3-1.dsc

http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/acorn/4.0.3-1/buildlog

FTBFS


>(2) upstream moved forward very fast and uses rollup to compile itself,
>but we don't have rollup yet, and rollup needs acorn (and itself!), so
>I'm using my node-es6-module-transpiler and sed-patch things so they
>work ; I could check running "acorn foo.js" works for most files in
>/usr/lib/nodejs (some give errors, but can still be tokenized, so
>nothing too worrying).
>
>The ultimate goal is to get rollup up and running, boostrapping it with
>node-es6-module-transpiler. I'm not there yet...
ok, but it needs to build... what about building stages?

look e.g. to gcc bootstrapping, or compilers in general
(note: I don't have knowledge on this topic)


cheers,
G.