Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] gnu: Add kicad.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:00:01PM +0300, Theodoros Foradis wrote:
> * gnu/packages/engineering.scm (kicad): New variable.

Looks pretty good to me. Below are some things I would investigate and
potentially fix on my own before pushing to Savannah; no need to send a
new patch.

Now we are just waiting to learn more about python2-wxpython...

> +;; We use kicad from a git commit, because support for boost 1.61.0
> +;; has been recently added.
> +(define-public kicad
> +  (let ((commit "4ee344e150bfaf3a6f3f7bf935fb96ae07c423fa")
> +        (revision "1"))
> +    (package
> +      (name "kicad")
> +      (version (string-append "4.0-" revision "."
> +                              (string-take commit 7)))
> +      (source
> +       (origin
> +         (method git-fetch)
> +         (uri (git-reference
> +               (url "https://git.launchpad.net/kicad.git")

Please use the correct URL here :)

> +         #:configure-flags
> +           (list "-DKICAD_STABLE_VERSION=ON"
> +                 "-DKICAD_REPO_NAME=stable"
> +                 "-DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION=4.0"

If possible, we should use our package's version string here. We aren't
really packaging KiCad 4.0, but rather 4.0 plus some extra Git commits,
right?

> +                 "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"
> +                 "-DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON"; Use our system's boost library
> +                 "-DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON"
> +                 "-DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON"
> +                 "-DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON"
> +                 ;; Has to be set explicitely, as we don't have the wxPython
> +                 ;; headers in the wxwidgets store item, but in wxPython.
> +                 (string-append "-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-I"
> +                                (assoc-ref %build-inputs "wxpython")
> +                                "/include/wx-3.0")
> +                 "-DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=TRUE"
> +                 "-DBUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF")

I would try building with this on. Does it require some unpackaged
dependencies?