Re: 01/03: gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Heya Danny,

I’m really happy to see you continue John’s heroic work on the
installer!  I’ll be happy to give it a spin when you deem appropriate.

dannym@scratchpost.org (Danny Milosavljevic) skribis:

> commit 6b6c8317097482487c41f302a2ae4fc27d9220f0
> Author: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
> Date:   Fri Jul 7 07:07:51 2017 +0200
>
>     gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/linux.scm (ncurses/gpm): New variable.

Side note:

> +(define-public ncurses/gpm
> +  (package
> +    (inherit ncurses)
> +    (name "ncurses-with-gpm")
> +    (arguments
> +        (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments ncurses)
> +         ((#:configure-flags cf)
> +          `(cons (string-append "--with-gpm=" (assoc-ref %build-inputs "gpm") "/lib/libgpm.so.2") ,cf))))
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("gpm" ,gpm)))))

Does it need the full file name of the .so?  Would be nicer if this
could be avoided, to avoid breakage in the future.

(BTW, please wrap lines to 80 chars.  :-))

Ludo’.