Re: [PATCH] Update ncmpcpp to v0.6.2

[David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org> writes:

> A patch to update ncmpcpp, the mpd frontend. I hope my patch makes more
> sense now -- the build system is a little finicky, so perhaps there's a
> neater way to accomplish what i'm doing.

Thanks for updating this!

> From e1382a9df3e7df94e794df8aa247920b7e28c0c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul van der Walt <paul@denknerd.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:54:07 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: ncmpcpp: Update to 0.6.2.
>
> * gnu/packages/mpd.scm (ncmpcpp): Update to 0.6.2. Add readline, boost,
>   autotools. Patch build system to find boost correctly (without -mt suffix).
> ---
>  gnu/packages/mpd.scm | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Could you please add a copyright line for yourself at the top of this
file?

>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm b/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
> index a1b4272..1daf261 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/mpd.scm
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>    #:use-module (guix utils)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages avahi)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages boost)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages doxygen)
> @@ -35,6 +37,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages mp3)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages pulseaudio)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages databases)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages video)
> @@ -153,7 +156,7 @@ terminal using ncurses.")
>  (define ncmpcpp
>    (package
>      (name "ncmpcpp")
> -    (version "0.5.10")
> +    (version "0.6.2")
>      (source (origin
>                (method url-fetch)
>                (uri
> @@ -161,11 +164,29 @@ terminal using ncurses.")
>                                version ".tar.bz2"))
>                (sha256
>                 (base32
> -                "1a54g6dary1rirrny9fd0hpxpyyffypni3mpbdpvmjnrl9v56vgz"))))
> +                "1mrd6m6ph0fscxp9x96ipxh6ai7w0n1miapcfqrqfy058qx5zbck"))))
>      (build-system gnu-build-system)
>      (inputs `(("libmpdclient" ,libmpdclient)
>                ("ncurses" ,ncurses)))
> -    (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> +       ("readline" ,readline)
> +       ("automake" ,automake)
> +       ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
> +       ("libtool" ,libtool)
> +       ("boost" ,boost)))

I doubt that readline and boost should be native inputs.  Please add
them as regular inputs.

> +    (arguments
> +     '(#:configure-flags
> +       '("BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX=")
> +       #:phases
> +       (alist-cons-after
> +        'unpack 'autogen
> +        (lambda _
> +          (substitute* "autogen.sh"
> +            (("/bin/sh") (which "bash")))

Is "autogen.sh" not executable?  If it starts with a shebang, Guix
should patch the file appropriately.  Does the build fail with this
removed?

> +          (setenv "NOCONFIGURE" "true")
> +          (zero? (system* "bash" "autogen.sh")))

If its executable, you can say:

    (zero? (system* "./autogen.sh"))

It's strange that the project used to ship a pre-built Makefile but now
requires users to do the autotools bootstrapping.  Oh well.

> +        %standard-phases)))
>      (synopsis "Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc")
>      (description "Ncmpcpp is an mpd client with a UI very similar to ncmpc,
>  but it provides new useful features such as support for regular expressions
> -- 
> 2.3.1
>

Could you send an updated patch?  Thanks!

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