Re: [PATCH 06a/10] gnu: Add libiconv.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Manolis Ragkousis <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On 04/29/2016 06:12 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>>> +  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
>>> +  #:export (glibc
>>> +            libiconv-if-needed))
>>
>> The #:export (glibc...) part only exists in wip-hurd so we need to
>> remove this in order for your patch to apply on master.
>
> Yes.

(already) done.

>> Maybe we should break this patch into two different ones, one for the
>> libiconv package description and one for the libiconv-if-needed. The
>> first will go to master and the second to core-updates. WDYT?
>
> Seconded: the patch that adds libiconv (and only that) can go directly
> in master; the patch that adds ‘libiconv-if-needed’ must be separate
> since it depends on the MinGW stuff.

Split up-now into 6a/10 and 6b/10.

Ah, Sorry!!  libiconv-if-needed depends on mingw-target? which sits in
guix/utils.scm.  I had that in patch 0004, and so I assumed that would
go in first and be OK.  IIUC, 0004 may go into core-updates...

Greetings,
Jan

>From e3d01e6075ece0269131fb35cd560c05d37a586e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 18:48:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 6a/10] gnu: Add libiconv.

* gnu/packages/base.scm (libiconv): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 1c4ebbf..3819ecc 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Alex Kost <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Manolis Fragkiskos Ragkousis <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
 
 (define-module (gnu packages base)
   #:use-module ((guix licenses)
-                #:select (gpl3+ lgpl2.0+ public-domain))
+                #:select (gpl3+ lgpl2.0+ lgpl3+ public-domain))
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
   #:use-module (gnu packages acl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bash)
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@
   #:use-module (guix download)
   #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
-  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial))
+  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
+  #:export (libiconv-if-needed))
 
 ;;; Commentary:
 ;;;
@@ -936,6 +938,27 @@ reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone 
boundaries, UTC offsets,
 and daylight-saving rules.")
     (license public-domain)))
 
+(define-public libiconv
+  (package
+   (name "libiconv")
+   (version "1.14")
+   (source (origin
+            (method url-fetch)
+            (uri (string-append
+                  "mirror://gnu/libiconv/libiconv-"
+                  version ".tar.gz"))
+            (sha256
+             (base32
+              "04q6lgl3kglmmhw59igq1n7v3rp1rpkypl366cy1k1yn2znlvckj"))))
+   (build-system gnu-build-system)
+   (synopsis "Character set conversion library")
+   (description
+     "libiconv provides an implementation of the iconv function for systems
+that lack it.  iconv is used to convert between character encodings in a
+program.  It supports a wide variety of different encodings.")
+   (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/";)
+   (license lgpl3+)))
+
 (define-public (canonical-package package)
   ;; Avoid circular dependency by lazily resolving 'commencement'.
   (let* ((iface (resolve-interface '(gnu packages commencement)))
-- 
2.7.3

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