Re: [PATCH] Fix h5py.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

> Another problem with h5py was that it didn’t actually build against our
> hdf5 library, because it looked for the library and the headers under
> ‘/opt/local’ and ‘/usr/local’.  I fixed this by adding an additional
> build phase.

... and that’s done in this patch:

>From 9a503dbcda17186161d040531b06a0e7cf9b2a0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:34:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: python-h5py: Fix path to hdf5 library.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-h5py)[arguments]: Add "fix-hdf5-paths"
  phase.
---
 gnu/packages/python.scm | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 1865477..cdf0207 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -596,13 +596,28 @@ and verifies that it matches the intended target 
hostname.")
        (base32
         "0q4f9l8grf6pwp64xbv8bmyxx416s7h4522nnxac056ap3savbps"))))
     (build-system python-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:tests? #f ; no test target
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-hdf5-paths
+          (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+            (let ((prefix (assoc-ref inputs "hdf5")))
+              (substitute* "setup_build.py"
+                (("\\['/opt/local/lib', '/usr/local/lib'\\]")
+                 (string-append "['" prefix "/lib" "']"))
+                (("'/opt/local/include', '/usr/local/include'")
+                 (string-append "'" prefix "/include" "'")))
+              (substitute* "setup_configure.py"
+                (("\\['/usr/local/lib', '/opt/local/lib'\\]")
+                 (string-append "['" prefix "/lib" "']")))
+              #t))))))
     (propagated-inputs
      `(("python-numpy" ,python-numpy)))
     (inputs
      `(("hdf5" ,hdf5)))
     (native-inputs
      `(("python-cython" ,python-cython)))
-    (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; no test target
     (home-page "http://www.h5py.org/";)
     (synopsis "Read and write HDF5 files from Python")
     (description
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