Hi Ludo'

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi,
>
> Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> skribis:
>
>> I recently encountered a small script incompatibility between Guix and
>> other distros (Arch, Fedora, Debian) because the `xml' binary is often
>> either moved or symlinked to `xmlstarlet'.
>>
>> So here's a patch that adds the symlink, is that OK to commit?
>
> Sure!  Maybe add a comment above stating that several other distros do
> that.
>
>>>From a285bc89eb37a5aa56d444c195d9ef013a30aeec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:57:35 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: xmlstarlet: Install symlink to xmlstarlet binary.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/xml.scm (xmlstarlet)[arguments]: Add 'symlink-xmlstarlet
>> phase.
>
> [...]
>
>> +       (add-after 'install 'symlink-xmlstarlet
>> +         (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>> +           (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
>> +                  (bin (string-append out "/bin")))
>> +             (symlink (string-append bin "/xml")
>                          ^
> "xml" is enough.

Oh cool, thanks for the review! Pushed with
b04198a1477f9d685d674a1dcc81b79b530fc409.

Thanks,
Pierre