Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

> * gnu/packages/databases.scm (mdbtools): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/databases.scm | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> index e32bcfa66..bed8719d9 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Andy Patterson <ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2017 Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
> +;;; Copyright © 2017 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages jemalloc)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages language)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages linux)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages man)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages parallel)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
> @@ -1469,3 +1471,42 @@ for ODBC.")
>  
>  (define-public python2-pyodbc-c
>    (package-with-python2 python-pyodbc-c))
> +
> +(define-public mdbtools
> +  (package
> +    (name "mdbtools")
> +    (version "0.7.1")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/archive/"
> +                           version ".tar.gz"))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32
> +         "05hbmxcq173kzb899gdi3bz2qcc1vi3n1qbbkwpsvrq7ggf11wyw"))
> +       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))))
> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("glib" ,glib)))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
> +       ("automake" ,automake)
> +       ("libtool" ,libtool)
> +       ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
> +       ("txt2man" ,txt2man)
> +       ("which" ,which)))
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:phases
> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +         (add-before 'configure 'autoreconf
> +           (lambda _
> +             (zero? (system* "autoreconf" "-vfi")))))))
> +    (home-page "https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc")

I'm sure you meant to put https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools as the homepage?

> +    (synopsis "Read Microsoft Access databases")
> +    (description "MDB Tools is a set of tools and applications to read the
> +proprietary MDB file format used in Microsoft's Access database package.  This
> +includes programs to export schema and data from Microsoft's Access database
> +file format to other databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL,
> +etc., and an SQL engine for performing simple SQL queries.")
> +    (license (list license:lgpl2.0
> +                   license:gpl2+))))

Also be sure to fix up the commit message so it doesn't have the bug
number and such things in it. Otherwise LGTM.