Description:

Hi

Some points I noticed while comparing the AUR/julia-git package against the community/julia one (Reason because of the SSE2 thing and some more).

The setting of Make.inc USE_SYSTEM flags is out of date (with the release-0.4 Make.inc of course)

Settings like
USE_SYSTEM_READLINE=0 \
USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 \
USE_SYSTEM_GRISU=0 \
USE_SYSTEM_RMATH=0 \

aren't available anymore and
USE_MKL=0 \

got renamed to USE_INTEL_MKL (Building with USE_MKL should make a note about that change)

And there are a few missing:
USE_SYSTEM_DSFMT=0 \
USE_SYSTEM_LIBGIT2
USE_SYSTEM_PATCHELF

Which brings me to the next point. Any reason not to use the arch libgit2 while building julia? If using it, it would remove the makedepend on cmake. Additionally since the move to libgit2 the dependency on git can be dropped/replaced with libgit2.

And why is libuv included in the deps, but not activated via USE_SYSTEM_LIBUV=1 ? (Although on that case my knowing was, that julia used an old fork of libuv and wasn't working the repo one).

Two more deps that could be included as USE_SYSTEM_..=1 are OPENLIBM and OPENSPECFUN. Both resides in the AUR and are used for the julia-git package. Although fairly said the gain is minimal.

Julia provides .desktop files and sorts, so namcap complains about a missing call to xdg-icon-resource forceupdate or the gtk based one.

In my opinion the optdepends line should move into the package_julia() function. Now the julia-docs packages also offers this optdepends which is kinda unnecessary.

And lastly.
Dunno about the build process with the pointed release. But before the release of 0.4 they changed some things with the doc building and in general the html doc is generated. If this also applies for the pointed release shouldn't this be copied to the julia-doc package?