Re: [cocci] No longer possible to build with system dependencies?

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2022, Jan Tojnar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried building Coccinelle from the latest commit from master but it
> appears it is no longer possible to do so without relying on bundles.
>
> I like to use libraries from my Linux distribution since then I do not
> have to build them over and over again every time I nuke the repo.
> Additionally, since distros tend to use sandboxed environment for
> building packages, building dependencies independently reduces
> excessively long rebuild time when failure occurs higher in the
> dependency tree.
>
> Looking at the commit history, the last change to `configure.ac` file
> from the following commit is responsible:
>
> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/commit/1d0733a27006b06eef712f541000a8bf10246804
>
> in addition to:
>
> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/commit/3f54340c8ac907e528dbe1475a4a7141e77b9cdd
>
> If this was done to prevent people from using old versions of the
> libraries, would it be possible to add a minimum version check instead?
> Or at least add an option to force the use of system libraries,
> so that distros do not have to patch the limitation out to comply with
> their policies on packaging vendored dependencies?

Thanks for the feedback.  There was definitely no intention to restrict
builds in anyway.

julia