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authorJohn Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>2014-01-30 14:22:49 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-01-30 22:00:55 +0100
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parentf914963e47baa70ea931c04b7ca348884a41786e (diff)
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gnu: Add GNU Octave.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (octave): New variable. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index a916eb3f66..f5bd1d12d4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
;;; Copyright © 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2014 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -26,16 +27,24 @@
#:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
#:use-module (gnu packages compression)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages fltk)
#:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
#:use-module (gnu packages gettext)
#:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
#:use-module (gnu packages gd)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages ghostscript)
#:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages less)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages xorg)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages gl)
#:use-module (gnu packages multiprecision)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
#:use-module (gnu packages perl)
#:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
#:use-module (gnu packages python)
#:use-module (gnu packages readline)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo)
#:use-module (gnu packages texlive)
#:use-module (gnu packages xml))
@@ -225,4 +234,58 @@ plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave.")
;; X11 Style with the additional restriction that derived works may only be
;; distributed as patches to the original.
(license (license:fsf-free
- "http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyright"))))
+ "http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/gnuplot/gnuplot/Copyright"))))
+
+;; For a fully featured Octave, users are strongly recommended also to install
+;; the following packages: texinfo, less, ghostscript, gnuplot.
+(define-public octave
+ (package
+ (name "octave")
+ (version "3.8.0")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/octave/octave-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0ks9pr154syw0vb3jn6xsnrkkrbvf9y7i7gaxa28rz6ngxbxvq9l"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (inputs
+ `(("lapack" ,lapack)
+ ("readline" ,readline)
+ ("glpk" ,glpk)
+ ("curl" ,curl)
+ ("pcre" ,pcre)
+ ("fltk" ,fltk)
+ ("fontconfig" ,fontconfig)
+ ("freetype" ,freetype)
+ ("libxft" ,libxft)
+ ("mesa" ,mesa)
+ ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("gfortran" ,gfortran-4.8)
+ ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+ ("perl" ,perl)
+ ;; The following inputs are not actually used in the build process. However, the
+ ;; ./configure gratuitously tests for their existence and assumes that programs not
+ ;; present at build time are also not, and can never be, available at run time!
+ ;; If these inputs are therefore not present, support for them will be built out.
+ ;; However, Octave will still run without them, albeit without the features they
+ ;; provide.
+ ("less" ,less)
+ ("texinfo" ,texinfo)
+ ("ghostscript" ,ghostscript)
+ ("gnuplot" ,gnuplot)))
+ (arguments
+ `(#:configure-flags (list (string-append "--with-shell="
+ (assoc-ref %build-inputs "bash")
+ "/bin/sh"))))
+ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/")
+ (synopsis "High-level language for numerical computation")
+ (description "GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language that is specialized
+for numerical computations. It can be used for both linear and non-linear
+applications and it provides great support for visualizing results. Work may
+be performed both at the interactive command-line as well as via script
+files.")
+ (license license:gpl3+)))