Subject: Re: [bug#27774] [PATCH] gnu: add libgeotiff

From: Björn Höfling <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:22:44 +0200

On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:46:24 +0200
Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Björn!
> 
> Björn Höfling <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > From 4e96405382258d0aa3a1760ac77dd0ac72706786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20H=C3=B6fling?=
> >  <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:00:07 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: add libgeotiff
> >
> > * gnu/packages/geo.scm (libgeotiff): New variable.  
> 
> [...]
>   
> > +(define-public libgeotiff
> > +  (package
> > +   (name "libgeotiff")
> > +   (version "1.4.2")
> > +   (source (origin
> > +            (method url-fetch)
> > +            (uri (string-append
> > "http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/"
> > +                                "libgeotiff-"
> > +                                version ".tar.gz"))
> > +            (sha256
> > +             (base32
> > +
> > "0vjy3bwfhljjx66p9w999i4mdhsf7vjshx29yc3pn5livf5091xd"))))
> > +   (build-system gnu-build-system)
> > +   (arguments
> > +    `(#:configure-flags
> > +      `( ,(string-append "--with-zlib")
> > +         ,(string-append "--with-jpeg")
> > +         ,(string-append "--with-libtiff="
> > +                         (assoc-ref %build-inputs "libtiff")))  
> 
> I think this can be reduced to...
> 
> #:configure-flags
> (list "--with-zlib" "--with-jpeg"
>       (string-append "--with-libtiff" (assoc-ref ....)))

Of cause!

> > +    #:phases
> > +    (modify-phases %standard-phases
> > +      (add-after
> > +          'unpack 'delete-nonfree-files
> > +        (lambda _
> > +          ;; Remove .csv-files, distributed from
> > +          ;; EPSG under a restricted license.
> > +          ;; See LICENSE.txt for full license text.
> > +          (for-each delete-file (find-files "." "\\.csv$"))
> > +          ;; Now that we remove the csv-files, we need to modify
> > the Makefile:
> > +          (substitute* "Makefile.in"
> > +            (("all-am: Makefile \\$\\(LTLIBRARIES\\) \\$\\(DATA\\)
> > \\$\\(HEADERS\\) geo_config.h")
> > +             "all-am: Makefile $(LTLIBRARIES) $(HEADERS)
> > geo_config.h")
> > +            (("install-data-am: install-dist_csvDATA
> > install-includeHEADERS")
> > +             "install-data-am: install-includeHEADERS"))
> > +          #t)))))  
> 
> Thanks for finding this. Can you move this section to a 'snippet'
> instead? Otherwise these restricted files will show up in `guix build
> -S libgeotiff`, which we can not allow.

I didn't know of the 'snippet' until now. I will rework it with a origin->snippet
and send it in again.

> The rest LGTM!