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From: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 25728@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#25728] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:58:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170717215847.kkv6iwetj5i5uh3v@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874luahjw4.fsf@elephly.net>

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Hi Ricardo,

I myself am running Coreboot and libreboot, but I have Vendor BIOS
machines I can test on aswell.

Thanks for your testing and notes. I will try this as soon as I have
time and get back to you with results.

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.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >
> > 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
>   
>   GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6  2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC
>   https://elephly.net
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-17 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170214185339.25538-1-contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
     [not found] ` <20170214185339.25538-2-contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
     [not found]   ` <871suvu8yu.fsf@elephly.net>
2017-04-15 15:28     ` bug#25728: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add colorforth ng0
2017-04-15 16:00       ` ng0
2017-06-18 10:59         ` [bug#25728] " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-18 11:59           ` ng0
2017-06-18 13:52             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-28  9:48               ` ng0
2017-07-17 20:36                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-17 20:43                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-17 20:46                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-17 21:58                       ` ng0 [this message]
2017-07-23  8:35                       ` ng0
2017-08-10  8:04                         ` Konstantin Tcholokachvili
2017-10-10 13:13                           ` ng0
2017-10-11 10:45                             ` bug#25728: " ng0

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