1456877 - (bmo-libcmark-gfm) Add a wrapper around libcmark_gfm to Bugzilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Adding the CommonMark CPAN module requires an install of libcmark.

There are a number of ways forward on this:

- Figure out how to build it on centos6. We'd need to build it both in the docker containers and in the development VM.

- Find a centos6 rpm from a reputable source  (e.g. needs to receive updates)

- Write an Alien::libcmark CPAN module that will detect a system libcmark or build one. I already did this for libcmark_gfm but we've decided to go forward with the mainline CommonMark implementation. Doing this would also require getting the CommonMark module updated but the maintainer might appreciate that.
  Writing Alien::* modules is very pleasant (mostly just need to adjust the alienfile in https://github.com/dylanwh/Alien-libcmark_gfm)

- Decide we need to update to centos 7 first.

Comment 1

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

The end result is to have a set of commands that can be run so that the following command doesn't fail:

cpanm -l test CommonMark

Currently this results in this error:
Running Makefile.PL
libcmark 0.21.0 or higher not found at Makefile.PL line 16.
-> N/A
-> FAIL Configure failed for CommonMark-0.280301. See /home/vagrant/.cpanm/work/1524267352.13714/build.log for details.

Comment 2

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Attachment: PR

Comment 3

[Israel Madueme [:imadueme]]

Attachment: Github PR #598