Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add proxychains-ng.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>>> ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>>> Could you show us the error message in case of using
>>>>> “#:configure-flags”?  This really should work, so if it fails I’d like
>>>>> to fix this instead of working around it, if possible.
>>>
>>> […]
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Looks like you need to set the “prefix” variable in
>>> #:make-flags – it is defined in the Makefile (along with “exec_prefix”,
>>> which you might also have to override).
>>>
>>> ~~ Ricardo
>>>
>>
>> I did set prefix and exec_prefix in the make-flags, gets ignored.
>> it doesn't work, and I think I tried setting it in the make-flags before.
>> I will revert to the original patch and add a comment why it needs to be
>> configured like this. Second choice could be to substitute, but
>> ./configure --options is shorter and apparently what the application
>> wants.
>
> The reason here is that the configure script aborts when it encounters
> arguments it doesn’t expect, such as the CONFIG_SHELL argument.  As a
> result the “config.mak” file is never created.
>
> I’ve got this to build by making the custom configure script a little
> more tolerant.
>
> I also changed the description to be a full sentence.  I’ve upcased
> “TCP”, “SOCKS”, and “HTTP”.  The synopsis has also been simplified.
>
> The license was too limited.  The license headers (in the files that
> have them) include the “or later” clause, so this is really GPLv2+.
>
> I’ve also added a comment as to why the tests have been disabled.
>
> If this looks okay to you I’ll push it later today.

It's okay for me. Thanks for looking into this.

> ~~ Ricardo
>
>
> From d2f2d139f4aac52ac0f79e7f81a0be5fad2ad100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:47:41 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add proxychains-ng.
>
> * gnu/packages/networking.scm (proxychains-ng): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/networking.scm | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/networking.scm b/gnu/packages/networking.scm
> index 1275a41..2678739 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/networking.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/networking.scm
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
>  ;;; Copyright © 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> -;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> +;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Stefan Reichör <stefan@xsteve.at>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Raimon Grau <raimonster@gmail.com>
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> +;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -690,3 +691,37 @@ information by IP Address.")
>    (description "IO::Socket::INET6 is an interface for AF_INET/AF_INET6 domain
>  sockets in Perl.")
>    (license (package-license perl))))
> +
> +(define-public proxychains-ng
> +  (package
> +    (name "proxychains-ng")
> +    (version "4.11")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append "https://github.com/rofl0r/" name "/releases/"
> +                                  "download/v" version "/" name "-" version
> +                                  ".tar.bz2"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1dkncdzw852488gkh5zhn4b5i03qyj8rgh1wcvcva7yd12c19i6w"))))
> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:tests? #f ; there are no tests
> +       #:make-flags '("CC=gcc")
> +       #:phases
> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +         (add-after 'unpack 'fix-configure-script
> +           (lambda _
> +             ;; The configure script is very intolerant to unknown arguments,
> +             ;; such as "CONFIG_SHELL".
> +             (substitute* "configure"
> +               (("\\*\\) break ;;" line)
> +                (string-append "[A-Z]*) shift ;;\n"
> +                               line)))

I'm curious what this substitute does. Could you explain it?

> +             #t)))))
> +    (synopsis "Redirect any TCP connection through a proxy or proxy chain")
> +    (description "Proxychains-ng is a preloader which hooks calls to sockets
> +in dynamically linked programs and redirects them through one or more SOCKS or
> +HTTP proxies.")
> +    (home-page "https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng")
> +    (license license:gpl2+)))
> -- 
> 2.9.2
>

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