Upstream patches we apply to Julia's library dependencies

[StefanKarpinski]

These are the patches we apply to Julia's dependencies:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/deps/patches

Many of these are years old and should be upstreamed. In particular, we should not at this point require patched versions of SuiteSparse, Clang, dSFMT, libgit2, libunwind, OpenBLAS or p7zip.

[StefanKarpinski]

Presumably these patches are already in the process of being upstreamed:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/libgit2-case-sensitive.patch
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/openblas-ofast-power.patch
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/openblas-winexit.patch
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/p7zip-12-CVE-2016-9296.patch
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/p7zip-13-CVE-2017-17969.patch
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/deps/patches/p7zip-15-Enhanced-encryption-strength.patch

[StefanKarpinski]

I've opened these specific issues for individual patches that require upstreaming:

• upstream SuiteSparse winclang patch #37322
• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37323
• upstream clang patch #37324
• upstream dSFMT patches #37325
• upstream GMP Apple ARM64 patch #37326
• upstream GMP exception patch #37327
• upstream GMP alloc overflow patch #37328
• upstream libgit2 ssh-agent non-fatal patch #37329
• upstream libunwind prefer extbl patch #37330
• upstream libunwind static ARM patch #37331
• upstream p7zip FreeBSD build fix patch #37332

[ViralBShah]

dSFMT patches have been upstreamed, and #38917 should remove them from the build.

[ViralBShah]

SuiteSparse upstream: DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse#111

[ViralBShah]

GMP releases extremely infrequently, and it is unclear what the path is there. I feel the others are all done, and we can close this umbrella issue.

[giordano]

and it is unclear what the path is there

Is it? I think the best bet is to submit a patch to the gmp-devel mailing list