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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add toxic.
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ng0 |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add toxic. |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:18:08 +0000 |
John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:51:10PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (toxic): New variable.
> > ---
> > gnu/packages/messaging.scm | 47
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
> >
> > +(define-public toxic
> > + (package
> > + (name "toxic")
> > + (version "0.7.2")
> > + (source
> > + (origin
> > + (method url-fetch)
> > + (uri (string-append
> "https://github.com/JFreegman/toxic/archive/"
> > + "v" version ".tar.gz"))
> > + (sha256
> > + (base32
> > + "0nbcj71ffl85l396bxc5cs8d7abn4b7absaj5asq9bvcfv52m5m2"))
> > + (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
> > + (inputs
> > + `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
>
> I'm not sure what's up here. IIRC, we don't install the ncurses *.pc
> files. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
>
> It would seem that we don't. In fact so far as I'm aware, ncurses doesn't
> even
> provide such a thing. Instead it provides it's own pkg-config like utility
> called
> "ncursesw60config" which you can use if you like.
>
> Personally however I don't like either approach. I think it much cleaner
> and more
> reliably to explicitly state which path(s) and libraries you need rather than
> to
> rely on some wierd script to guess it for you.
>
> J'
>
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I have no preference. I just have no idea right now how to fix
the detection of ncurses here. If I would sit down for more than
a few hours with months apart I could come up with a solution,
but I'd rather use the collaborative approach and get review and
ideas from other people.
Kei: Thanks for solving the first part of the problem!
John: If we used absolute paths for every occurence of ncurses
related files in the build system of toxic, would this work? I
have no time to try this at the moment.
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