[bug#27691] Tabs and patches names

[Ludovic Courtès]

Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>> I had to make the change below so that ‘tome4’ would behave as one would
>> expect.  However, the game doesn’t work for me: it creates an X11 window
>> that immediately disappears; after that, the engine is running
>> (displaying its activity in the console), but there’s no open window.
>>
>> The problem can be reproduced with:
>>
>>   ./pre-inst-env guix environment --pure --ad-hoc tome4 
>>
>> Could you check if it works for you?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ludo’.
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> index df6922d88..41084a2f2 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> @@ -4660,8 +4660,7 @@ Crowther & Woods, its original authors, in 1995.  It 
>> has been known as
>>                                ;; defaulting to working directory
>>                                ;; for engine code!
>>                                "cd " data "\n"
>> -                              "./t-engine &\n"
>> -                              "exit\n"))))
>> +                              "exec -a tome4 ./t-engine 
>> \"address@hidden"\n"))))
>>                          (chmod wrapper #o555)
>>                          ;; licenses
>>                          (for-each (lambda (file)
>
> I applied your patch and ran `./pre-inst-env guix environment --pure
> --ad-hoc tome4 -- tome4`.  It worked.

Is it on GuixSD or on another distro?  In the latter case, ‘tome4’ might
be using stuff from the host distro that’s missing on my machine.

> However I got “bash: tty: command not found” after `./pre-inst-env guix
> environment --pure --ad-hoc tome4`.  `tome4` runs just fine still.

Sounds harmless.

Thanks,
Ludo’.