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-rw-r--r--gnu/local.mk1
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/compression.scm30
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch24
3 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 06eb76cc2e..d12b6b1878 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1165,6 +1165,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
%D%/packages/patches/mupen64plus-video-z64-glew-correct-path.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/mutt-store-references.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/m4-gnulib-libio.patch \
+ %D%/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/netcdf-date-time.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/netcdf-tst_h_par.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/netpbm-CVE-2017-2586.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index 89dcc34e21..bb1c5b625c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2018 Joshua Sierles, Nextjournal <joshua@nextjournal.com>
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
;;; Copyright © 2019 Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -2110,3 +2111,32 @@ at run time, and must be installed separately.")
archives generated by @command{makeself} or @command{mojo} without running the
possibly untrusted extraction shell script.")
(license license:gpl3+))))
+
+(define-public ncompress
+ (package
+ (name "ncompress")
+ (version "4.2.4.5")
+ (source (origin
+ (method git-fetch)
+ (uri (git-reference
+ (url "https://github.com/vapier/ncompress")
+ (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+ (patches (search-patches "ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch"))
+ (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0s3ik7k5a5vzcfiayhsxrc87drg3l425aqapspmw5py91b9jhc8r"))))
+ (arguments
+ '(#:make-flags (list "CC=gcc"
+ (string-append "BINDIR=" %output "/bin")
+ (string-append "MANDIR=" %output "/share/man/man1"))
+ #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (delete 'configure))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (home-page "https://github.com/vapier/ncompress/")
+ (synopsis "Original Lempel-Ziv compress/uncompress programs")
+ (description "(N)compress provides the original compress and uncompress
+programs that used to be the de facto UNIX standard for compressing and
+uncompressing files. These programs implement a fast, simple Lempel-Ziv (LZW)
+file compression algorithm.")
+ (license license:gpl2+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98752e8e64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Patch taken from Debian sid.
+
+Description: Support uncompressing and compressing soft links.
+ Historically, ncompress for Debian has been built using a command line
+ directly in debian/rules. For 4.2.4.5-1, I simplified by swtching to the
+ upstream Makefile. However, that caused a regression - the Debian version of
+ ncompress has always successfully handled soft links, but this stopped
+ working. To revert to the original behavior, I need to remove -DLSTAT from
+ the build options, to be consistent with how the code was previously built.
+Author: Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
+Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/918836
+Index: ncompress/GNUmakefile
+===================================================================
+--- ncompress.orig/GNUmakefile
++++ ncompress/GNUmakefile
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ distclean: cleanup
+
+ Makefile: Makefile.def GNUmakefile
+ sed \
+- -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H -DLSTAT $$(LDFLAGS) :' \
++ -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H $$(LDFLAGS) :' \
+ Makefile.def > Makefile
+
+ check: