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diff --git a/gnu/packages/man.scm b/gnu/packages/man.scm index db13fc14a7..9be408a3d1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/man.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/man.scm @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU +;;; Copyright © 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2014 David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. @@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages groff) #:use-module (gnu packages less) #:use-module (gnu packages lynx) + #:use-module (gnu packages perl) #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)) (define-public libpipeline @@ -107,3 +109,32 @@ a flexible and convenient way.") accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases.") (license gpl2+))) + +(define-public help2man + (package + (name "help2man") + (version "1.45.1") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/help2man/help2man-" + version ".tar.xz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1hk7ciqinq7djdb7s94y3jxh06rp8i93bpjmg4r40cniws8wf3y7")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments `(;; There's no `check' target. + #:tests? #f)) + (inputs + `(("perl" ,perl) + ;; TODO: Add these optional dependencies. + ;; ("perl-LocaleGettext" ,perl-LocaleGettext) + ;; ("gettext" ,gnu-gettext) + )) + (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/") + (synopsis "Automatically generate man pages from program --help") + (description + "GNU help2man is a program that converts the output of standard +\"--help\" and \"--version\" command-line arguments into a manual page +automatically.") + (license gpl3+))) |