Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add bedtools

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Since there is no install phase in the Makefile I had to write a
> replacement to copy all tools from the build bin/ directory to the
> output /bin/ directory.  I don't know if it is better to explicitly list
> the tools to copy or if this should rather be done with a glob pattern.

Is a glob pattern really needed, or is it that bin/* must be copied?

If the latter, you could use ‘scandir’ to obtain the list of files in
that directory, or (find-files "build/bin" ".*") where the 2nd argument
is a regexp, not a glob pattern.

> Another source of ugliness in the recipe is the
> patch-makefile-SHELL-definition phase which is really just
> patch-makefile-SHELL but working on ":=" definitions rather than
> "=" assignments.  Augmenting patch-makefile-SHELL to handle definitions
> as well would result in a cleaner package recipe.

Yeah; let’s fix that in core-updates.

> +       (alist-cons-after
> +        'unpack 'patch-makefile-SHELL-definition
> +                (lambda _

Please align ‘(lambda’ with ‘'unpack’.

> +                  (define (find-shell name)
> +                    (let ((shell
> +                           (search-path (search-path-as-string->list (getenv 
> "PATH"))
> +                                        name)))
> +                      (unless shell
> +                        (format (current-error-port)
> +                                "patch-makefile-SHELL: warning: no binary 
> for shell `~a' found in $PATH~%"
> +                                name))
> +                      shell))

‘find-shell’ is not needed: just use the procedure called ‘which’.

Could you send an updated patch?

Thanks,
Ludo’.