[Bug bzip2/30001] New: Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's patch?)

[Bug bzip2/30001] New: Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's patch?)

[slyich at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30001

            Bug ID: 30001
           Summary: Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's
                    patch?)
           Product: bzip2
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: bzip2
          Assignee: nobody at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: slyich at gmail dot com
                CC: bzip2-devel at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

To ease cross-compilation of bzip2 NixOS uses

   
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sbrabec/bzip2/for_downstream/bzip2-1.0.6.2-autoconfiscated.patch
version of autoconf build system for bzip2.

WDYT of merging it upstream in some form?

Currently NixOS generates ./configure using autoconf and automake. NixOS would
prefer using autoconf-based upstream bzip2 release tarball without a dependency
on these development tools.

Thanks!

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[Bug bzip2/30001] Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's patch?)

[sam at gentoo dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30001

Sam James <sam at gentoo dot org> changed:

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                   |                            |sam at gentoo dot org

--- Comment #1 from Sam James <sam at gentoo dot org> ---
See Eli's patch series:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/bzip2-devel/2022q2/000166.html.

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[Bug bzip2/30001] Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's patch?)

[eschwartz at archlinux dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30001

--- Comment #2 from Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux dot org> ---
In general my understanding is that autoconfiscation patch you linked was
explicitly rejected several times due to the "Incompatible changes" section.

My patch series solves this problem and a number of other problems. It should
also still work fine with cross-compilation, just specify `./configure
--host=<triplet>` and it will set up e.g. `$CC` correctly.

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[Bug bzip2/30001] Port to autoconf build system (maybe use sbrabec's patch?)

[noloader at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30001

Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |noloader at gmail dot com

--- Comment #3 from Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Eli Schwartz from comment #2)
> In general my understanding is that autoconfiscation patch you linked was
> explicitly rejected several times due to the "Incompatible changes" section.
> 
> My patch series solves this problem and a number of other problems. It
> should also still work fine with cross-compilation, just specify
> `./configure --host=<triplet>` and it will set up e.g. `$CC` correctly.

One comment... To cross-compile, you should specify both --build and --host.
--build is easy. config.guess gives that triplet:

   $ find /usr/share -name config.guess
   ...
   /usr/share/autoconf/build-aux/config.guess

   $ /usr/share/autoconf/build-aux/config.guess
   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

--host is the trickier one. There is no list of cross-compile triplets.

Also see
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation.html
.

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