Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ircii.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 07:34:49PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> * gnu/packages/irc.scm (ircii): New variable.

Cool!

> +             (snippet
> +              '(begin
> +                 (substitute* "bsdinstall"
> +                   (("/bin/strip") "strip")
> +                   (("/bin/cp") "cp")
> +                   (("/bin/chmod") "chmod")
> +                   (("/etc/chown") "chown")
> +                   (("/bin/chgrp") "chgrp")
> +                   (("/bin/mkdir") "mkdir")
> +                   (("/bin/rm") "rm")
> +                   (("/bin/mv") "mv"))))))

Does anyone else think we should put this origin snippet in a build phase
instead? Or, should we leave it in the origin, where it will be applied
to the source code provided by `guix build --source ircii`?

> +         (delete 'check))))

Using '#:tests? #f' is preferred instead of deleting the check phase.

> +    (inputs
> +     `(("libiconv" ,libiconv)
> +       ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
> +       ("openssl" ,openssl)))

I noticed that the built package does refer to libiconv:

---
$ guix gc --references $(./pre-inst-env guix build ircii)
/gnu/store/0kml8g9fix69v00afv59ngf4lgfr1565-openssl-1.0.2h
/gnu/store/9maps38bsia0wcxm82h0v0p2dxyn8j35-ircii-20151120
/gnu/store/9nifwk709wajpyfwa0jzaa3p6mf10vxs-gcc-4.9.3-lib
/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23
/gnu/store/xl19qrfzga52vrvp4ncccwjlnrjqwj95-ncurses-6.0
/gnu/store/ykzwykkvr2c80rw4l1qh3mvfdkl7jibi-bash-4.3.42
---

But, libiconv is used:

---
$ strings /gnu/store/9maps38bsia0wcxm82h0v0p2dxyn8j35-ircii-20151120/bin/irc | grep iconv
iconv_close
iconv
iconv_open
iconv_open@@GLIBC_2.2.5
iconv@@GLIBC_2.2.5
iconv_close@@GLIBC_2.2.5
---

Perhaps libiconv should be propagated?