Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add numdiff.
From: "Paul A. Patience" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 02:50:37 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (numdiff): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/maths.scm | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 6b3f5cf41c..98be1bc211 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2021 Gerd Heber <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2021 Franck Pérignon <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2021 Philip McGrath <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2021 Paul A. Patience <[email-masked]>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -6229,3 +6230,32 @@ and conversions, physical constants, symbolic calculations (including
 integrals and equations), arbitrary precision, uncertainty propagation,
 interval arithmetic, plotting.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public numdiff
+  (package
+    (name "numdiff")
+    (version "5.9.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append "http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/numdiff/numdiff-"
+                           version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "1vzmjh8mhwwysn4x4m2vif7q2k8i19x8azq7pzmkwwj4g48lla47"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     '(#:tests? #f
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (add-before 'compress-documentation 'delete-precompressed-info-file
+           (lambda _
+             (delete-file (string-append (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
+                                         "/share/info/numdiff.info.gz"))
+             #t)))))
+    (home-page "https://nongnu.org/numdiff/")
+    (synopsis "Compare files with numeric fields")
+    (description
+     "Numdiff compares files line by line and field by field, ignoring small
+numeric differences and differences in numeric formats.")
+    (license license:gpl3+)))
--
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