Subject: bug#44176: closed (Re: [bug#44176] Acknowledgement (gnu: Add bash-ctypes))

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:29:01 +0000

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#44176: gnu: Add bash-ctypes

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Subject: Re: [bug#44176] Acknowledgement (gnu: Add bash-ctypes)
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
Cc: david larsson <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:27:58 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]> skribis:

> The git version lacks configure script, so we have to generate it first.
> That means we need to add autoconf, automake and libtool to
> native-inputs.
>
> And IIUC Guix's distributing strategy is distribute a release rather
> than rolling on Git. Do you think it's worth to change to git-fetch?

For Autotools-based project, we build from “make dist” tarballs like you
did, so I think it’s fine (we should discuss changing that in the
future.)

>>>From 8210f5f95ca4f33dce35ed0c9bb20c8f615ab079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:47:04 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add bash-ctypes
>
> * gnu/packages/bash.scm(bash-ctypes): New variable.

[...]

>>>From 663104a3945696323d893443a3ab0c96c17e07e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:43:05 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Use prefix "license:" to import (guix licenses)
>
> * gnu/packages/bash.scm
> (bash, bash-completion, bash-tap, bats, bash-ctypes)[license]:
>
> Rename with prefix "license:".

I tweaked the synopsis/description and applied both.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

Subject: gnu: Add bash-ctypes
From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:52:37 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

>From 5a85c09398cfe96ba244eac7dec45366a139188e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:47:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add bash-ctypes

* gnu/packages/bash.scm(bash-ctypes): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/bash.scm | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/bash.scm b/gnu/packages/bash.scm
index 47ca625d9a..356d0f82d6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bash.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bash.scm
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages)
   #:use-module (gnu packages base)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bootstrap)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages elf)
   #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
   #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
@@ -415,3 +416,25 @@ framework for Bash.  It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs
 you write behave as expected.  Bats is most useful when testing software written
 in Bash, but you can use it to test any UNIX program.")
     (license expat)))
+
+(define-public bash-ctypes
+  (package
+    (name "bash-ctypes")
+    (version "1.2")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/releases/download/"
+                           version "/ctypes-sh-" version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "0s1sifqzqmr0dnciv06yqrpzgj11d7n0gy5zaxh6b3x8bx7k75l8"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (inputs
+     `(("libelf" ,libelf)
+       ("elfutils" ,elfutils)))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh")
+    (synopsis "FFI for Bash")
+    (description "Bash-ctypes is a bash plugin that provides a foreign function
+interface directly in your shell. In other words, it allows you to call routines
+in shared libraries from within bash.")
+    (license expat)))
-- 
2.28.0

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