Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. I will add a comment about the tests.

About the patch: it's taken from the Gentoo package. I first tried packaging cgoban without any package and it consistently failed at configure phase, no matter the flags I passed. I decided to check the Gentoo package to see how they built it, as I have used cgoban in that distribution before and works well, and saw they just added this patch. Tried adding it, and it works. But I won't pretend to understand why.

If adding the patch is not a good solution, could someone help me figure out how to properly pack cgoban? Sorry about the inconvenience.

Tomás Ortín

On October 22, 2020 2:55:38 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi,

Tomás Ortín Fernández <tomasortin@mailbox.org> skribis:

 Sorry, I see I should have sent it all in one email.

 * gnu/packages/games.scm (cgoban): New variable.

Sorry for the delay!  Some comments:

+    (arguments
+     `(#:tests? #t))

Please add a short comment explaining why tests are disabled.

--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/cgoban-1.9.14-cflags.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in

Patches should start with a couple lines stating the origin, their
upstream status, and what they do.

Patches also need to be listed in ‘gnu/local.mk’ and mentioned in the
commit log.

However, I suspect this patch has no effect: since ‘autoconf’ is not an
input of the package, its ‘configure’ script cannot be rebuilt to take
those changes into account.

Perhaps you can just remove it?

Could you send a second version?

Thanks!

Ludo’.