Subject: Re: [bug#30748] [PATCH] gnu: Add nsd.

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:06:59 +0100

Marius,
Danny,

So...

On 2018-03-10 10:18, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> * gnu/packages/dns.scm (nsd): New public variable.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> +         (add-before 'configure 'patch-installation-paths
>> +           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>> +             (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
>> +                    (doc (string-append out "/share/doc/" ,name "-" 
>> ,version)))
>> +               (substitute* "Makefile.in"
>> +                 (((string-append ".*\\$\\(DESTDIR\\)\\$\\("
>> +                                  "(config|pid|xfr|db)dir"
>> +                                  "\\).*"))
>> +                  "")

It's just a Makefile being very stupid. How boring :-(

It tries to create run-time systemy things like `dirname $pidfile` (from 
#:configure-flags), which it has no business doing, so we ask it not to 
by politely shooting it in the head.

> Can you add a comment about what's going on here?

Sure. If anyone has a cleaner fix or regex to match I'll gladly take it, 
but I'm done staring at metamake. Otherwise a comment paraphrasing the 
above will have to do.

T G-R

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