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diff --git a/gnu/packages/c.scm b/gnu/packages/c.scm index bc6042874b..d82db532aa 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/c.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/c.scm @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2018 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> +;;; Copyright © 2018 Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:) #:use-module (guix packages) #:use-module (guix download) + #:use-module (guix git-download) #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) #:use-module (guix build-system trivial) #:use-module (gnu packages bootstrap) @@ -30,6 +32,12 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages perl) #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo) #:use-module (gnu packages guile) + #:use-module (gnu packages multiprecision) + #:use-module (gnu packages pcre) + #:use-module (gnu packages python) + #:use-module (gnu packages autotools) + #:use-module (gnu packages gettext) + #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config) #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)) (define-public tcc @@ -166,3 +174,50 @@ compiler while still keeping it small, simple, fast and understandable.") ;; PCC incorporates code under various BSD licenses; for new code bsd-2 is ;; preferred. See http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/licenses/ for more details. (license (list license:bsd-2 license:bsd-3)))) + +(define-public libbytesize + (package + (name "libbytesize") + (version "1.3") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append + "https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize/releases/download/1.3/libbytesize-" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1l7mxm2vq2h6137fyfa46v9r4lydp9dvmsixkd64xr3ylqk1g6fi")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal) + ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + ("python" ,python))) + (inputs + `(("mpfr" ,mpfr) + ("pcre" ,pcre))) + ;; One test fails because busctl (systemd only?) and python2-pocketlint + ;; are missing. Should we fix it, we would need the "python-2" , + ;; "python2-polib" and "python2-six" native-inputs. + (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) + (home-page "https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize") + (synopsis "Tiny C library for working with arbitrary big sizes in bytes") + (description + "The goal of this project is to provide a tiny library that would +facilitate the common operations with sizes in bytes. Many projects need to +work with sizes in bytes (be it sizes of storage space, memory...) and all of +them need to deal with the same issues like: + +@itemize +@item How to get a human-readable string for the given size? +@item How to store the given size so that no significant information is lost? +@item If we store the size in bytes, what if the given size gets over the +MAXUINT64 value? +@item How to interpret sizes entered by users according to their locale and +typing conventions? +@item How to deal with the decimal/binary units (MB versus MiB) ambiguity? +@end itemize + +@code{libbytesize} offers a generally usable solution that could be used by +every project that needs to deal with sizes in bytes. It is written in the C +language with thin bindings for other languages.") + (license license:lgpl2.1+))) |