Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add perl-net-psyc.

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 06:46:31PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> From 74a6c1e552a6ae8f438e91cbe318882401b440f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:08:42 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add psyclpc.
> 
> * gnu/packages/psyc.scm (psyclpc): New variable.

> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (list (string-append "http://www.psyced.org/files/";
> +                                        name "-" version ".tar.xz")
> +                         (string-append "http://krosos.sdf.org/static/unix/";
> +                                        "perlpsyc-" version ".zip")))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "0c2afcj8b2yr2vmy9sy0528iqs9sw01j6q35lvxicm42gs7vnik2"))))

Do both of those URLs provide a file with the same hash?

> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:tests? #f ; There are no tests/checks.
> +       #:configure-flags (list
> +                          "--enable-use-tls=yes"
> +                          "--enable-use-mccp"

The "Mud Client Compression Protocol"?

> +                          (string-append "--with-openssl="
> +                                         (assoc-ref %build-inputs "openssl"))
> +                          (string-append "--prefix="
> +                                         (assoc-ref %outputs "out"))
> +                          (string-append "--libdir=" ; "-DMUD_LIB="

What does this commented text mean?

> +                                         (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
> +                                         "/opt/psyced/world")
> +                          (string-append "--bindir="
> +                                         (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
> +                                         "/opt/psyced/bin")
> +                          (string-append "--libexecdir=" ; "-DERQ_DIR="

Same question here.

> +    (inputs
> +     `(("zlib" ,zlib)
> +       ("openssl" ,openssl)))
> +    ;; pcre is bundled to ensure the version is compatible. XXX: look into
> +    ;; unbundling it. Upstream should update from pcre 4.5 to 8.38. For
> +    ;; functionality reasons we can not unbundle it now.
> +    ;; ("pcre" ,pcre)))

That version of PCRE was released in 2003. We might want to add a
warning to the package description...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pcre

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