Okay, I think I got it all up to snuff.
xorg.scm has a number of fonts which should be native-inputs too, but aren't. I'll handle them if they don't get resolved by the end of the month.

Patch attatched.


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
Guy Grant <tadnimi@gmail.com> writes:

> Okay, patch updated as recomended; Patch attatched. Again, if
> something looks wrong -- feel free to comment. Thanks!
>
>
> From 3244099f65c1c6bd99d6b0921213c0749e04be47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Guy Grant <tadnimi@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:58:08 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] add terminus-font
>
> ---

This needs a proper commit message.  Look in the git logs for examples.

> +    (inputs
> +      `(("bdftopcf" ,bdftopcf)
> +        ("font-util", font-util)
> +        ("mkfontdir" ,mkfontdir)
> +        ("perl" ,perl)))
> +    (native-inputs
> +      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))

I suspect that all of those inputs should instead be native-inputs.  If
the code in those packages is executed at build time, then they should
be native-inputs.  If the code is executed at run-time, they should be
normal inputs.  The distinction is important when cross compiling.

> +    (arguments
> +      `(#:configure-flags (list
> +        ;; install fonts into subdirectory of package output instead of
> +        ;; font-util-?.?.?/share/fonts/X11
> +        (string-append "--with-fontrootdir=" %output "/share/fonts/X11"))
> +         #:tests? #f)) ;; No test target in tarball

Please fix the indentation here.

> +    (home-page "http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/")
> +    (synopsis "Simple bitmap programming font")
> +    (description "Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long
> + (8 and more hours per day) work with computers.")
> +    (license
> +     (license:x11-style
> +      "http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web"))))

Otherwise looks good to me.

    Thanks!
      Mark