Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nim.

[José Miguel Sánchez García]

On 2017-01-08 14:47, David Craven wrote:
> +           (add-before 'install 'create-dest-dirs
> +             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +               (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
> +                 (mkdir out)
> +                 (mkdir (string-append out "/bin")))))
> +           (replace 'install
> +             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +               (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
> +                 (system (string-append "./install.sh " out "/opt"))
> +                 (symlink
> +                   (string-append out "/opt/nim/bin/nim")
> +                   (string-append out "/bin/nim"))))))))
>
> > Done. Nim is installed in /opt because it's the easiest and 
> > recommended
> > way of installing it.
>
> What do you think about patching install.sh to not create a nim 
> subfolder?
>
> Then you could replace these two phases with
>
> +             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +               (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
> +                 (system* "./install.sh" out))
It would pollute the root directory, but as it's going to be alone in 
his own
directory... I don't know, but here you have another patch that does 
exactly
that. If you're going to add it, feel free to choose the one you prefer 
(if you
choose the first, change the version, they updated to 0.16.0 ;) )

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José Miguel Sánchez García

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