Subject: Re: [bug#48889] [PATCH 1/4] New package: bird bgp daemon, versions 1 and 2

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:35:21 +0200

Hi,

Ryan Sundberg via Guix-patches via schreef op zo 06-06-2021 om 11:52 [-0700]:
> Adds the bird BGP daemon to gnu/packages/bird.scm

See commits (e.g. git log -n9) for how to format commit messages.

> ---
>  gnu/packages/bird.scm | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 gnu/packages/bird.scm
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/bird.scm b/gnu/packages/bird.scm
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..5fac395906
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/bird.scm

Maybe gnu/packages/networking.scm, instead of creating a new
module for a single package.

> +        #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +                                ; Fix "cc not found" in tools/mergedirs
> +                                (add-after 'bootstrap 'set-cc
> +                                           (lambda _ 
> +                                             (setenv "CPP" "gcc -E")
> +                                             #t)))))

This most likely should be ,(string-append (cc-for-target) " -E"), to
make sure cross-compiling works. Also, the more declarative #:make-flags
is preferred above imperative setenv.

> +    (inputs
> +      `(("autoconf" ,autoconf)
> +        ("bison" ,bison)
> +        ("flex" ,flex)

autoconf, bison & flex most likely should be native inputs.

> +        ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
> +        ("readline" ,readline)))
> +    (home-page "http://bird.network.cz/")
> +    (synopsis "BIRD Internet Routing Daemon")
> +    (description "The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.")
> +    (license gpl2+)))

The description line is too long.
./pre-inst-env guix lint [email-masked] should detect that.

Greetings,
Maxime.