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diff --git a/distro/packages/ncurses.scm b/distro/packages/ncurses.scm new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9c31c6fee --- /dev/null +++ b/distro/packages/ncurses.scm @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +;;; Guix --- Nix package management from Guile. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- +;;; Copyright (C) 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +;;; +;;; This file is part of Guix. +;;; +;;; Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at +;;; your option) any later version. +;;; +;;; Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +;;; GNU General Public License for more details. +;;; +;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +;;; along with Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +(define-module (distro packages ncurses) + #:use-module (guix packages) + #:use-module (guix http) + #:use-module (guix utils) + #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)) + +(define-public ncurses + (let ((post-install-phase + '(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) + ;; When building a wide-character (Unicode) build, create backward + ;; compatibility links from the the "normal" libraries to the + ;; wide-character libraries (e.g. libncurses.so to libncursesw.so). + (with-directory-excursion (string-append out "/lib") + (for-each (lambda (lib) + (define libw.a + (string-append "lib" lib "w.a")) + (define lib.a + (string-append "lib" lib ".a")) + (define libw.so.x + (string-append "lib" lib "w.so.5")) + (define lib.so.x + (string-append "lib" lib ".so.5")) + (define lib.so + (string-append "lib" lib ".so")) + + (when (file-exists? libw.a) + (format #t "creating symlinks for `lib~a'~%" lib) + (symlink libw.a lib.a) + (symlink libw.so.x lib.so.x) + (false-if-exception (delete-file lib.so)) + (call-with-output-file lib.so + (lambda (p) + (format p "INPUT (-l~aw)~%" lib))))) + '("curses" "ncurses" "form" "panel" "menu"))))))) + (package + (name "ncurses") + (version "5.9") + (source (origin + (method http-fetch) + (uri (string-append "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0fsn7xis81za62afan0vvm38bvgzg5wfmv1m86flqcj0nj7jjilh")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments + (case-lambda + ((system) + `(#:configure-flags + `("--with-shared" "--without-debug" "--enable-widec" + + ;; By default headers land in an `ncursesw' subdir, which is not + ;; what users expect. + ,(string-append "--includedir=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out") + "/include") + + ;; C++ bindings fail to build on + ;; `i386-pc-solaris2.11' with GCC 3.4.3: + ;; <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6395191>. + ,,@(if (string=? system "i686-solaris") + '("--without-cxx-binding") + '())) + #:tests? #f ; no "check" target + #:phases (alist-cons-after 'install 'post-install + ,post-install-phase + %standard-phases) + + ;; The `ncursesw5-config' has a #!/bin/sh that we don't want to + ;; patch, to avoid retaining a reference to the build-time Bash. + #:patch-shebangs? #f)) + ((system cross-system) + (arguments cross-system)))) + (self-native-input? #t) + (synopsis + "GNU Ncurses, a free software emulation of curses in SVR4 and more") + (description + "The Ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses +in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses Terminfo format, supports pads +and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key +mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD Curses. + +The ncurses code was developed under GNU/Linux. It has been in use for some +time with OpenBSD as the system curses library, and on FreeBSD and NetBSD as +an external package. It should port easily to any ANSI/POSIX-conforming +UNIX. It has even been ported to OS/2 Warp!") + (license "X11") + (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/")))) |