On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:11:08 +0100
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> skribis:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/plotutils.scm (asymptote): New variable.
> > * gnu/packages/patches/asymptote-gsl2.patch: New file.
> > * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.  
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +    (native-inputs
> > +     `(("gs" ,ghostscript)              ;For tests
> > +       ("texinfo" ,texinfo)             ;For generating documentation
> > +       ("texlive" ,texlive)             ;For tests and documentation  
> 
> Would it be enough to depend on texlive-bin?

Both tests and documentation creation depend on various .fmt and .sty
files from the texlive package, so texlive-bin would not be enough it
seems.
 
> Alternately, could documentation be made a separate package?

Do you mean "package" rather than "output"?  I had tried doing a
separate output originally. The issue is that the 'asy' binary in "out"
ends up with a reference to the "doc" output for the 'help' command in
its interactive mode.
 
> Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Attached is an updated patch suitable for master that adds a
libgc-for-c++ since it's a semi-private package.  Is this alright, or
should it be two patches?

`~Eric