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authorJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2019-09-15 20:36:12 +0200
committerJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2019-12-06 06:52:36 +0100
commit9720104c430b8c72a705f8c898a6922b9fc416fb (patch)
treee47f4faa23ab79c7ea74fa4418162c2d14b58ac8 /gnu/packages/compression.scm
parentd4d7bf60e8a273839627bf400bb9683842f19de3 (diff)
downloadguix-9720104c430b8c72a705f8c898a6922b9fc416fb.tar.gz
gnu: Add ncompress.
* gnu/packages/compression.scm (ncompress): New variable.
* gnu/packages/patches/compress-fix-softlinks.patch: New file.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
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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+)))