[swift-dev] Starter project: Port Swift to RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 / Scientific Linux 7

[Manolo van Ee]

> On 07 Dec 2015, at 22:56, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Manolo van Ee <manolo.vanee at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 07 Dec 2015, at 20:53, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Manolo van Ee <manolo.vanee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'd be happy to help out as well with Centos 7 if we can easily divide tasks. Otherwise I can focus on Fedora, which should be similar, but might behave a little different.
>>>> 
>>>> Same here though, no access to RHEL.
>>>> 
>>>> FYI:
>>>> The mixin_linux_installation preset builds on Fedora 23, but the created swift binary does not support the REPL.
>>>> 
>>>> Tried the buildbot_linux_1510 preset on Fedora 23 as well, but that one fails to build.
>>>> 
>>>> I fixed the Glibc header problem, which you will undoubtedly encounter on Centos 7 as well. See pull request:
>>>> https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/282
>>> 
>>> Thanks!  As I mentioned in the pull request, please fix the code
>>> style, and I'll merge it.
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>> I will, probably early tomorrow (CET). I also noticed that I left the "copy_glibc_module" custom command target in there, which should've been removed. By the way, is it ok to amend and force push the pull request, or is that considered bad practice? I read arguments for and against it.
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> It is OK to force push.
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> Dmitri

Good to know, thanks!