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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/compression.scm | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch | 24 |
2 files changed, 54 insertions, 0 deletions
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+))) diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..98752e8e64 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/ncompress-fix-softlinks.patch @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Patch taken from Debian sid. + +Description: Support uncompressing and compressing soft links. + Historically, ncompress for Debian has been built using a command line + directly in debian/rules. For 4.2.4.5-1, I simplified by swtching to the + upstream Makefile. However, that caused a regression - the Debian version of + ncompress has always successfully handled soft links, but this stopped + working. To revert to the original behavior, I need to remove -DLSTAT from + the build options, to be consistent with how the code was previously built. +Author: Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org> +Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/918836 +Index: ncompress/GNUmakefile +=================================================================== +--- ncompress.orig/GNUmakefile ++++ ncompress/GNUmakefile +@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ distclean: cleanup + + Makefile: Makefile.def GNUmakefile + sed \ +- -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H -DLSTAT $$(LDFLAGS) :' \ ++ -e 's:options= :options= $$(CFLAGS) -DNOFUNCDEF -DUTIME_H $$(LDFLAGS) :' \ + Makefile.def > Makefile + + check: |