Re: Seeking advice: preparing releases on GuixSD.

[ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> writes:
>
>> my previous releases of gnurl (https://gnunet.org/gnurl) have
>> been tested on Gentoo and GuixSD and prepared to release only on
>> Gentoo, copied back to GuixSD and finished up on that GuixSD
>> system.
>> With my switch to GuixSD (and leaving Gentoo) 2 or 3 versions ago
>> I have to advice people to run ./buildconf again (essentially:
>> run autotools again), because of artifacts in shebangs and paths
>> of generated files.
>
> I cannot reproduce this.  After packaging roffit I ran this:
>
>     guix environment gnurl --ad-hoc autoconf automake libtool roffit ghostscript
>     ./buildconf
>     ./configure --enable-ipv6 --with-gnutls --without-libssh2 \
>                 --without-libmetalink --without-winidn --without-librtmp \
>                 --without-nghttp2 --without-nss --without-cyassl \
>                 --without-polarssl --without-ssl --without-winssl \
>                 --without-darwinssl --disable-sspi --disable-ntlm-wb --disable-ldap \
>                 --disable-rtsp --disable-dict --disable-telnet --disable-tftp \
>                 --disable-pop3 --disable-imap --disable-smtp --disable-gopher \
>                 --disable-file --disable-ftp --disable-smb
>     make dist
>
> What I get is a tarball named “gnurl--.tar.gz” (because “configure.ac”
> specifies the version as a dash).  Unpacking it I see exactly *one*
> reference to something in /gnu/store and that’s in “ltmain.sh”.

Hm.. that's what I had too before I asked here, I just felt there
must be 0 occurences of /gnu/store.

> I haven’t tried the “maketgz” script because it contains references to
> /usr/bin, but ultimately it runs “make dist” as well.
>
> Attached is the patch to add roffit.

I keep roffit here: https://pagure.io/packages I just felt no
need to add it so far.

> From af81a0a3c796af583ec88dd4bc8d2e8a742c58fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:12:45 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add roffit.
>
> * gnu/packages/groff.scm (roffit): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/groff.scm | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> index 93d0380..2509a78 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
>  ;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
>    #:use-module (guix licenses)
>    #:use-module (guix packages)
>    #:use-module (guix download)
> +  #:use-module (guix git-download)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
> @@ -56,3 +58,42 @@ formatted output based on formatting commands contained within the text.  It
>  is usually the formatter of \"man\" documentation pages.")
>     (license gpl3+)
>     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/")))
> +
> +;; There are no releases, so we take the latest commit.
> +(define-public roffit
> +  (let ((commit "e5228388e3faf2b7f1ae5bd048ad46ed565304c6")
> +        (revision "1"))
> +    (package
> +      (name "roffit")
> +      (version (string-append "0.11-" revision "." (string-take commit 9)))
> +      (source (origin
> +                (method git-fetch)
> +                (uri (git-reference
> +                      (url "https://github.com/bagder/roffit.git")
> +                      (commit commit)))
> +                (file-name (string-append "roffit-" commit "-checkout"))
> +                (sha256
> +                 (base32
> +                  "1y7ndbqciy7h0khlpi1bv4v1614vhybnmm4jysj6fwxkw9cwv1nc"))))
> +      (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +      (arguments
> +       `(#:test-target "test"
> +         #:make-flags
> +         (list (string-append "INSTALLDIR="
> +                              (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/bin"))
> +         #:phases
> +         (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +           (delete 'configure)
> +           (add-before 'install 'pre-install
> +             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +               (mkdir-p (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
> +                                       "/bin"))
> +               #t)))))
> +      (inputs
> +       `(("perl" ,perl)))
> +      (home-page "https://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/")
> +      (synopsis "Convert nroff files to HTML")
> +      (description
> +       "Roffit is a program that reads an nroff file and outputs an HTML file.
> +It is typically used to display man pages on a Web site.")
> +      (license expat))))
> -- 
> 2.10.2
>
>
> -- 
> Ricardo
>
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