Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-reportlab.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> New patch attached.

Thanks, applied as 3fa2dc274, after prefixing the license and importing
(gnu packages python).

By the way, I saw this at the end of the install phase:

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running install_scripts

########## SUMMARY INFO #########
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#Attempting install of _rl_accel & pyHnj
#extensions from '/tmp/guix-build-python-reportlab-3.3.0.drv-0/reportlab-3.3.0/src/rl_addons/rl_accel'
################################################
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#Attempting install of _renderPM
#extensions from '/tmp/guix-build-python-reportlab-3.3.0.drv-0/reportlab-3.3.0/src/rl_addons/renderPM'
will use package libart 2.3.12
# installing without freetype no ttf, sorry!
# You need to install a static library version of the freetype2 software
# If you need truetype support in renderPM
# You may need to edit setup.cfg (win32)
# or edit this file to access the library if it is installed
################################################
Downloading standard T1 font curves
Failed to download standard T1 font curves
phase `install' succeeded after 1.2 seconds
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> >> +     ;; Prevent creation of the egg. Without this flag, various artifacts
> >> +     ;; from the build inputs end up in the final python3 output. It also
> >> +     ;; works around https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20765 .
> >> +     `(#:configure-flags '("--single-version-externally-managed" "--root=/")))
> >
> > Feel free to add something to that discussion. We are starting a new
> > "core-updates" cycle, so it's a good time to begin implementing changes
> > to core components such as build systems.
> 
> There are quite a few packages suffering from this, at least
> python-{pillow,dendropy}. What's strange is that site.py and all
> propagated /bin files end up in the python3 output, causing a mountain
> of collisions. I'll have a shot at figuring out what's going on.

It would be awesome to make some progress on this.