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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/golang.scm | 39 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/golang.scm b/gnu/packages/golang.scm index 29181ed554..ad914d5583 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/golang.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/golang.scm @@ -3005,3 +3005,42 @@ required by Go's standard Hash interface.") (description "A connection wrapper for @command{go-libp2p} that provides bandwidth statistics for wrapped connections.") (license license:expat)))) + +(define-public go-github-com-mitchellh-go-homedir + (let ((commit "ae18d6b8b3205b561c79e8e5f69bff09736185f4") + (revision "0")) + (package + (name "go-github-com-mitchellh-go-homedir") + (version (git-version "1.0.0" revision commit)) + (source + (origin + (method git-fetch) + (uri (git-reference + (url "https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir.git") + (commit commit))) + (file-name (git-file-name name version)) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0f0z0aa4wivk4z1y503dmnw0k0g0g403dly8i4q263gfshs82sbq")))) + (build-system go-build-system) + (arguments + (quote (#:import-path "github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir" + ;; TODO: Tests fail because it tries to access home. + #:tests? #f))) + (home-page "https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir") + (synopsis "Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory without cgo") + (description "This is a Go library for detecting the user's home +directory without the use of @command{cgo}, so the library can be used in +cross-compilation environments. + +Usage is simple, just call homedir.Dir() to get the home directory for a user, +and homedir.Expand() to expand the @command{~} in a path to the home +directory. + +Why not just use @command{os/user}? The built-in @command{os/user} package +requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that +package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for +@command{os/user} is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for +the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling +cross-compilation.") + (license license:expat)))) |