Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> Kei Kebreau writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>
>>> At the risk of totally destroying my productivity, I thought I'd take a
>>> short of packaging a common roguelike.  Unfortunately, it seems like
>>> every roguelike I try to package runs into some snag.  In this case,
>>> angband can't find ncurses.  I don't know why!
>>>
>>> Apparently this is related:
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2014-January/271203.html
>>> ... but I don't really know enough.
>>>
>>> Anyone who wants to help contribute to the downfall of various GuixSD
>>> users by assisting getting roguelikes into the distribution: this is
>>> pretty close, if we can solve that one thing! :)
>>>
>>>  - Chris
>>>
>>> From 5a97d5dffa12a3282b57313db8aa609f27729074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:28:51 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add angband.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/games.scm (angband): New variable.
>>> ---
>>>  gnu/packages/games.scm | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>>> index d386e2c..08c00b9 100644
>>> --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 David Hashe <david.hashe@dhashe.com>
>>> -;;; Copyright © 2015 Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
>>> +;;; Copyright © 2015, 2106 Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
>> Should be 2016, I assume. ^
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org>
>>> @@ -223,6 +223,38 @@ them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide, not knowing
>>>  that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil.")
>>>      (license license:gpl3+)))
>>>  
>>> +(define-public angband
>>> +  (package
>>> +    (name "angband")
>>> +    (version "4.0.5")
>>> +    (source
>>> +     (origin
>>> +       (method url-fetch)
>>> +       (uri (string-append "http://rephial.org/downloads/4.0/"
>>> +                           "angband-" version ".tar.gz"))
>>> +       (sha256
>>> +        (base32
>>> +         "0lpq2kms7hp421vrasx2bkkn9w08kr581ldwik3v0hlq6h7rlxhd"))))
>>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>> +    (arguments
>>> +     `(#:tests? #f                                 ;no check target
>>> +       ;; #:configure-flags '("--enable-sdl")
>>> +       #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
>>> +                  (add-after
>>> +                      'unpack 'autogen.sh
>>> +                    (lambda _
>>> +                      (zero? (system* "sh" "autogen.sh"))))))) 
>>> +    (native-inputs
>>> +     `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
>>> +       ("automake" ,automake)))
>>> +    (inputs `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
>>> +    (home-page "http://rephial.org/")
>>> +    (synopsis "Dungeon exploration roguelike")
>>> +    (description "Classic dungeon exploration roguelike.  Explore the depths
>>> +below Angband, seeking riches, fighting monsters, and preparing to fight
>>> +Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness.")
>>> +    (license license:gpl2)))
>>> +
>>>  (define-public pingus
>>>    (package
>>>      (name "pingus")
>>
>> I found the issue. You must substitute the instances of the string
>> "ncursew5-config" with "ncursesw6-config" before running autogen.sh.
>> This is because we only package version 6 of the ncurses library. By
>> making this change, I was able to build angband reproducibly. Should we
>> enable the SDL, X11 and GTK+ interfaces as well?
>
> Wow nice!
>
> I'm for enabling at least one of the visual interfaces, though I don't
> think we need to enable all of them?  Perhaps they should be different
> derived package versions?  WDYT?

I say we use the SDL interface if we have to go with only one. Enabling
more interfaces in derived packages shouldn't be difficult if someone
requests them. :)