Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang.

[Steve Sprang]

I originally tried that tarball but I get an error downloading it:

$ guix download
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz

>From http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz...
ERROR: Bad qstring header component: kMSMAn68110840

-Steve


On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:56:07PM -0800, Steve Sprang wrote:
>> Add the Erlang programming language.
>>
>> Is there a better way to substitute "/usr/bin/env" with (which "env")?
>> There are a number of files throughout the source tree that require
>> the substitution, but there's not a handy way to identify many of them
>> without explicitly listing them.
>>
>> -Steve
>
>> From d31d3b2ece298b3e7610890390a7a12f865be881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Steve Sprang <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:46:40 -0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/erlang.scm: New file.
>> * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
>> ---
>>  gnu-system.am           |  1 +
>>  gnu/packages/erlang.scm | 82 
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 gnu/packages/erlang.scm
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
>> index c0f8fac..19d0ec5 100644
>> --- a/gnu-system.am
>> +++ b/gnu-system.am
>> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES =                                \
>
> [...]
>
>> +    (native-inputs
>> +     `(("perl" ,perl)
>> +       ("autoconf" ,autoconf)))
>
> The tarball available on erlang.org is already bootstrapped. If we use
> that one, we don't need to explicitly include autoconf and we don't need
> the 'prep-configure phase.
>
> This seems to be the correct URL for downloading the current and past
> releases (there is no "archive" directory linked anywhere that I saw):
> http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz
>
>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
>> +       ("openssl" ,openssl)))
>> +    (arguments
>> +     `(#:phases
>> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> +      (add-after
>> +          'patch-source-shebangs 'patch-source-env
>> +        (lambda* _
>> +          (let ((escripts
>> +                 (append
>> +                  (find-files "." "\\.escript")
>> +                  (find-files "lib/stdlib/test/escript_SUITE_data/")
>> +                  '("erts/lib_src/utils/make_atomics_api"
>> +                    "erts/preloaded/src/add_abstract_code"
>> +                    "lib/diameter/bin/diameterc"
>> +                    "lib/reltool/examples/display_args"
>> +                    "lib/reltool/examples/mnesia_core_dump_viewer"
>> +                    "lib/snmp/src/compile/snmpc.src"
>> +                    "make/verify_runtime_dependencies"
>> +                    "make/emd2exml.in"))))
>> +            (substitute* escripts
>> +              (("/usr/bin/env") (which "env"))))))
>> +      (add-before
>> +          'configure 'prep-configure
>> +        (lambda* _
>> +          (setenv "ERL_TOP" (getcwd))
>> +          (zero? (system* "./otp_build" "autoconf")))))
>> +       #:test-target "release_tests"))
>> +    (home-page "http://erlang.org/";)
>> +    (synopsis "The Erlang programming language")
>> +    (description
>> +     "Erlang is a programming language used to build massively
>> +scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high
>> +availability.  Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce,
>> +computer telephony and instant messaging.  Erlang's runtime system has
>> +built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.")
>> +    (license license:asl2.0)))
>> --
>> 2.6.3
>>
>