Re: [PATCH] gnu: ecl: Update to version 15.2.21.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Here's an updated patch for my proposal in my last e-mail.

>From 1ecd96ab33df9809786f01730a6bf531e56c6dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Taylan=20Ulrich=20Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
 <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:28:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: ecl: Update to version 15.2.21.

* gnu/packages/lisp.scm (ecl): Update to version 15.2.21, and disable the test
  suite because ECL now seems to require the presence of /etc/protocols during
  its initialization.
---
 gnu/packages/lisp.scm | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
index fe9cdab..91354e9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ interface to the Tk widget system.")
 (define-public ecl
   (package
     (name "ecl")
-    (version "13.5.1")
+    (version "15.2.21")
     (source
      (origin
        (method url-fetch)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ interface to the Tk widget system.")
                            (version-major+minor version)
                            "/ecl-" version ".tgz"))
        (sha256
-        (base32 "18ic8w9sdl0dh3kmyc9lsrafikrd9cg1jkhhr25p9saz0v75f77r"))))
+        (base32 "05di23v977byf67rq5bdshw8lqbby1ycbscdcl1vca0z6r1s204j"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (native-inputs `(("which" ,which)))
     (inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp)
@@ -110,25 +110,28 @@ interface to the Tk widget system.")
               ("libgc" ,libgc)
               ("libffi" ,libffi)))
     (arguments
-     '(#:phases
-       ;; The test-suite seems to assume that ECL is installed.  So re-order
-       ;; the phases, then reference the installed executable.
-       (let* ((check-phase (assq-ref %standard-phases 'check))
-              (rearranged-phases
-               (alist-cons-after 'install 'check check-phase
-                                 (alist-delete 'check %standard-phases))))
-         (alist-cons-before
-          'check 'pre-check
-          (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
-            (substitute* '("build/tests/Makefile")
-              (("ECL=ecl")
-               (string-append
-                "ECL=" (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/bin/ecl"))))
-          rearranged-phases))
-       ;; Parallel builds explicitly not supported:
-       ;; http://sourceforge.net/p/ecls/bugs/98/
-       #:parallel-build? #f
-       #:parallel-tests? #f))
+     '(#:tests? #f
+       ;; During 'make check', ECL fails to initialize with "protocol not
+       ;; supported", presumably because /etc/protocols is missing in the
+       ;; build environment.  See <http://sourceforge.net/p/ecls/bugs/300/>.
+       ;;
+       ;; Should the test suite be re-enabled, the following might be
+       ;; necessary (see <http://sourceforge.net/p/ecls/bugs/299/>):
+       ;;
+       ;; #:phases
+       ;; (let* ((check-phase (assq-ref %standard-phases 'check))
+       ;;        (rearranged-phases
+       ;;         (alist-cons-after 'install 'check check-phase
+       ;;                           (alist-delete 'check %standard-phases))))
+       ;;   (alist-cons-before
+       ;;    'check 'pre-check
+       ;;    (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+       ;;      (substitute* '("build/tests/Makefile")
+       ;;        (("ECL=ecl")
+       ;;         (string-append
+       ;;          "ECL=" (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/bin/ecl"))))
+       ;;    rearranged-phases))
+       ))
     (home-page "http://ecls.sourceforge.net/";)
     (synopsis "Embeddable Common Lisp")
     (description "ECL is an implementation of the Common Lisp language as
-- 
2.2.1