[bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth.

[Konstantin Tcholokachvili <konstantin.tcholokachvili@protonmail.com>]

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Hi ng0,

I've been on holidays and I didn't checked my emails.
Sadly, in fact there is a regression with qemu version 2.6 onwards, I filed a bug report to qemu team but they didn't investigated yet. For the moment the only solution is to:
1. Use older qemu ;
2. Usse Bochs.

This issue was reported here: https://github.com/narke/colorForth/issues/2

I'm also writing another implementation of colorForth in C but it's not finished yet.

Regards.

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth.
> Local Time: July 23, 2017 10:35 AM
> UTC Time: July 23, 2017 8:35 AM
> From: ng0@infotropique.org
> To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>, 25728@debbugs.gnu.org, Konstantin Tcholokachvili <konstantin.tcholokachvili@protonmail.com>
>
> Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 4.0K bytes:
>>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> It won’t work when it’s in the store because we cannot write to the
>> >> store. Even after copying it out of the store and changing permissions
>> >> it would simply crash. This could be a problem with my Libreboot
>> >> machine, but the first problem is bad enough.
>> >>
>> >> If the software cannot be used when it is installed to the store then I
>> >> don’t think it should be in the store at all. I think we should drop
>> >> this patch as the package is not actually usable.
>
> I can confirm the crashes on coreboot.
> Last October (patch date) is a while back so I can"t be sure if
> my memory of colorforth working on vendor BIOS is correct.
>
>> >> What do you think?
>
> I have another theory: We both don"t know how this is supposed
> to be used and the example on the github page is not helping.
>
> I CC"d the author of the software. Konstantin, do you know if we are doing anything
> obviously wrong in what we"ve tried in this bug/qa thread?
>
>> > The alternative is to also install a wrapper script to “bin” that
>> > essentially does this:
>> >
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> > qemu-system-i386 -snapshot -boot a -fda $prefix/share/colorforth/cf2012.img
>> >
>> > It still crashes for me but at least it doesn’t complain about store
>> > permissions. If you can get this to run on your computer then please
>> > send a final patch that incorporates all of these suggestions.
>> > Otherwise I think it may not be worth spending more time on a toy
>> > package like this.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> FWIW here’s the latest version of the diff:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/forth.scm b/gnu/packages/forth.scm
>> index 6d66faf5d..4ab8f20a9 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/forth.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/forth.scm
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
>> -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
>> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <ng0@no-reply.pragmatique.xyz>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Sou Bunnbu <iyzsong@gmail.com>
>> ;;;
>> ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>> @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@
>> #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
>> #:use-module (guix packages)
>> #:use-module (guix download)
>> + #:use-module (guix git-download)
>> #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
>> + #:use-module (gnu packages assembly)
>> #:use-module (gnu packages m4))
>>
>> (define-public gforth
>> @@ -58,3 +60,42 @@ and history. A generic virtual machine environment, vmgen, is also
>> included.")
>> (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/")
>> (license license:gpl3+)))
>> +
>> +(define-public colorforth
>> + (let ((commit "b518ff966955f0b196e7bb8f85337284fa23e29e")
>> + (revision "1"))
>> + (package
>> + (name "colorforth")
>> + (version (string-append "0.0.0-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
>> + (source (origin
>> + (method git-fetch)
>> + (uri (git-reference
>> + (url "https://github.com/narke/colorForth.git")
>> + (commit commit)))
>> + (sha256
>> + (base32
>> + "1q5szb9yi3nspbvnq0js6w24sb936ahjk828il760p0xpj5dsl45"))))
>> + (arguments
>> + `(#:tests? #f
>> + #:phases
>> + (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> + (delete "configure) ; No configure script
>> + (replace "install ; No install target
>> + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>> + (install-file "cf2012.img"
>> + (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
>> + "/share/colorforth/"))
>> + #t)))))
>> + (native-inputs
>> + `(("nasm" ,nasm)))
>> + (build-system gnu-build-system)
>> + (home-page "https://github.com/narke/colorForth")
>> + (synopsis "Native 32-bit colorForth for PCs, Bochs and Qemu")
>> + (description
>> + "Colorforth is a @code{colorForth} implementation written in x86
>> +assembly. It is a dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctation,
>> +includes its own operating system and produces extremely compact programs.
>> +Applications compile from pre-parsed source. Colorforth applications can be
>> +run using @code{Bochs} and @code{Qemu}. It is adapted from
>> +@url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/colorforth, colorforth}.")
>> + (license license:public-domain))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ricardo
>>
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