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authorJohn Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>2017-02-26 20:28:48 +0100
committerJohn Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>2017-03-02 18:17:26 +0100
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gnu: Add jacal.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (jacal): New variable. * gnu/packages/patches/jacal-fix-texinfo.patch: New file.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 913a403dab..9533f5f0a8 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
#:use-module (gnu packages python)
#:use-module (gnu packages readline)
#:use-module (gnu packages tbb)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages scheme)
#:use-module (gnu packages shells)
#:use-module (gnu packages tcl)
#:use-module (gnu packages texinfo)
@@ -2958,3 +2959,54 @@ algorithm for LCS. It is a fast program to compute the approximate
Longest Commons Subsequence of a set of strings.")
(home-page "https://github.com/gdv/Reduce-Expand-for-LCS")
(license license:gpl3+))))
+
+(define-public jacal
+ (package
+ (name "jacal")
+ (version "1c4")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-"
+ version ".zip"))
+ (sha256 (base32
+ "055zrn12a1dmy0dqkwrkq3fklbhg3yir6vn0lacp4mvbg8573a3q"))
+ (patches (search-patches "jacal-fix-texinfo.patch"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ `(#:phases
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-before 'build 'pre-build
+ ;; Don't use upstream's script - it really doesn't fit into
+ ;; Guix's functional paradigm.
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (substitute* "Makefile"
+ (("^install: install-script") "install: "))))
+ (add-after 'install 'post-install
+ ;; Instead, we provide our own simplified script.
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (let ((wrapper (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
+ "/bin/jacal")))
+ (format (open wrapper (logior O_WRONLY O_CREAT))
+ (string-append "#!~a\nexec ~a/bin/scm -ip1 "
+ "-e '(slib:load \"~a/lib/jacal/math\") "
+ "(math)' \"$@\"\n")
+ (which "bash")
+ (assoc-ref inputs "scm")
+ (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
+ (chmod wrapper #o555))))
+ (replace 'configure
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (zero? (system* "./configure"
+ (string-append "--prefix="
+ (assoc-ref outputs "out")))))))))
+ (inputs `(("scm" ,scm)))
+ (native-inputs `(("unzip" ,unzip)
+ ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
+ (synopsis "Symbolic mathematics system")
+ (description "GNU JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program based on
+Scheme. It manipulate and simplify a range of mathematical expressions such
+as equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices.")
+ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/jacal")
+ (license license:gpl3+)))
+