Re: Seeking advice: preparing releases on GuixSD.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> my previous releases of gnurl (https://gnunet.org/gnurl) have
> been tested on Gentoo and GuixSD and prepared to release only on
> Gentoo, copied back to GuixSD and finished up on that GuixSD
> system.
> With my switch to GuixSD (and leaving Gentoo) 2 or 3 versions ago
> I have to advice people to run ./buildconf again (essentially:
> run autotools again), because of artifacts in shebangs and paths
> of generated files.

I cannot reproduce this.  After packaging roffit I ran this:

    guix environment gnurl --ad-hoc autoconf automake libtool roffit ghostscript
    ./buildconf
    ./configure --enable-ipv6 --with-gnutls --without-libssh2 \
                --without-libmetalink --without-winidn --without-librtmp \
                --without-nghttp2 --without-nss --without-cyassl \
                --without-polarssl --without-ssl --without-winssl \
                --without-darwinssl --disable-sspi --disable-ntlm-wb 
--disable-ldap \
                --disable-rtsp --disable-dict --disable-telnet --disable-tftp \
                --disable-pop3 --disable-imap --disable-smtp --disable-gopher \
                --disable-file --disable-ftp --disable-smb
    make dist

What I get is a tarball named “gnurl--.tar.gz” (because “configure.ac”
specifies the version as a dash).  Unpacking it I see exactly *one*
reference to something in /gnu/store and that’s in “ltmain.sh”.

I haven’t tried the “maketgz” script because it contains references to
/usr/bin, but ultimately it runs “make dist” as well.

Attached is the patch to add roffit.

>From af81a0a3c796af583ec88dd4bc8d2e8a742c58fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:12:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add roffit.

* gnu/packages/groff.scm (roffit): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/groff.scm | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
index 93d0380..2509a78 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
 ;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
   #:use-module (guix licenses)
   #:use-module (guix packages)
   #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
@@ -56,3 +58,42 @@ formatted output based on formatting commands contained 
within the text.  It
 is usually the formatter of \"man\" documentation pages.")
    (license gpl3+)
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/";)))
+
+;; There are no releases, so we take the latest commit.
+(define-public roffit
+  (let ((commit "e5228388e3faf2b7f1ae5bd048ad46ed565304c6")
+        (revision "1"))
+    (package
+      (name "roffit")
+      (version (string-append "0.11-" revision "." (string-take commit 9)))
+      (source (origin
+                (method git-fetch)
+                (uri (git-reference
+                      (url "https://github.com/bagder/roffit.git";)
+                      (commit commit)))
+                (file-name (string-append "roffit-" commit "-checkout"))
+                (sha256
+                 (base32
+                  "1y7ndbqciy7h0khlpi1bv4v1614vhybnmm4jysj6fwxkw9cwv1nc"))))
+      (build-system gnu-build-system)
+      (arguments
+       `(#:test-target "test"
+         #:make-flags
+         (list (string-append "INSTALLDIR="
+                              (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/bin"))
+         #:phases
+         (modify-phases %standard-phases
+           (delete 'configure)
+           (add-before 'install 'pre-install
+             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+               (mkdir-p (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
+                                       "/bin"))
+               #t)))))
+      (inputs
+       `(("perl" ,perl)))
+      (home-page "https://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/";)
+      (synopsis "Convert nroff files to HTML")
+      (description
+       "Roffit is a program that reads an nroff file and outputs an HTML file.
+It is typically used to display man pages on a Web site.")
+      (license expat))))
-- 
2.10.2

-- 
Ricardo

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