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diff --git a/gnu/packages/web.scm b/gnu/packages/web.scm index b5a54f686b..26768ccc1e 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/web.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/web.scm @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ #:use-module (guix build-system ant) #:use-module (guix build-system scons) #:use-module (gnu packages) + #:use-module (gnu packages adns) #:use-module (gnu packages apr) #:use-module (gnu packages check) #:use-module (gnu packages cran) @@ -83,8 +84,10 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages gtk) #:use-module (gnu packages java) #:use-module (gnu packages javascript) + #:use-module (gnu packages jemalloc) #:use-module (gnu packages image) #:use-module (gnu packages imagemagick) + #:use-module (gnu packages libevent) #:use-module (gnu packages libidn) #:use-module (gnu packages libunistring) #:use-module (gnu packages lisp) @@ -6343,3 +6346,84 @@ derivation by David Revoy from the original MonsterID by Andreas Gohr.") ;; expat for the code, CC-BY 4.0 for the artwork (license (list l:expat l:cc-by4.0)))) + +(define-public nghttp2 + (package + (name "nghttp2") + (version "1.30.0") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/" + "releases/download/v" version "/" + name "-" version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1b2j7il0wp8hi4jl3cah7fkshmg29cchdski9cw74gx5496gp6h8")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (outputs (list "out" + "lib")) ; only libnghttp2 + (native-inputs + `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + + ;; Required by tests. + ("cunit" ,cunit) + ("tzdata" ,tzdata))) + (inputs + ;; Required to build the tools (i.e. without ‘--enable-lib-only’). + `(("c-ares" ,c-ares) + ("jansson" ,jansson) ; for HPACK tools + ("jemalloc" ,jemalloc) ; fight nghttpd{,x} heap fragmentation + ("libev" ,libev) + ("libxml2" ,libxml2) ; for ‘nghttp -a’ + ("openssl" ,openssl))) + (arguments + `(#:configure-flags + (list (string-append "--libdir=" (assoc-ref %outputs "lib") "/lib") + "--enable-app" ; build all the tools + "--enable-hpack-tools" ; ...all the tools + "--disable-examples" + "--disable-static") ; don't bother building .a files + #:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'unpack 'break-circular-reference + ;; libnghttp2.pc by default retains a reference to the ‘out’ output, + ;; which is not allowed. Break this cycle. While we could install + ;; only the library to ‘out’ and move everything else to a separate + ;; output, this would inconvenience the majority of (human) users. + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) + (substitute* "lib/libnghttp2.pc.in" + (("@prefix@") + (assoc-ref outputs "lib"))) + #t)) + (add-before 'check 'set-timezone-directory + (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys) + (setenv "TZDIR" (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "tzdata") + "/share/zoneinfo")) + #t))))) + (home-page "https://nghttp2.org/") + (synopsis "HTTP/2 protocol client, proxy, server, and library") + (description + "nghttp2 implements the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, version +2 (@dfn{HTTP/2}). + +A reusable C library provides the HTTP/2 framing layer, with several tools built +on top of it: + +@itemize +@item @command{nghttp}, a command-line HTTP/2 client. It exposes many advanced +and low-level aspects of the protocol and is useful for debugging. +@item @command{nghttpd}, a fast, multi-threaded HTTP/2 static web server that +serves files from a local directory. +@item @command{nghttpx}, a fast, multi-threaded HTTP/2 reverse proxy that can be +deployed in front of existing web servers that don't support HTTP/2. +Both @command{nghttpd} and @command{nghttpx} can fall back to HTTP/1.1 for +backwards compatibilty with clients that don't speak HTTP/2. +@item @command{h2load} for benchmarking (only!) your own HTTP/2 servers. +@item HTTP/2 uses a header compression method called @dfn{HPACK}. +nghttp2 provides a HPACK encoder and decoder as part of its public API. +@item @command{deflatehd} converts JSON data or HTTP/1-style header fields to +compressed JSON header blocks. +@item @command{inflatehd} converts such compressed headers back to JSON pairs. +@end itemize\n") + (license l:expat))) |