bug#26488: [PATCH] gnu: Add crawl.

[nee]

Am 17.04.2017 um 20:37 schrieb Arun Isaac:
> The parallel-build? and parallel-tests? arguments are only to disable
> parallel builds and tests for packages whose build procedures fail when
> run parallely. crawl's build and tests work fine when run in
> parallel. So, you don't have to allow for sequential builds in your
> 'check phase. You can just assume the build is always going to be
> parallel. No need to test for parallel-build? and parallel-test?.
> 
Okay, removed it.
>> +               (setenv "HOME" (getcwd))
>> +               ;; Fake a terminal for the test cases.
>> +               (setenv "TERM" "xterm-256color")
>> +               (setenv "COLUMNS" "80")
>> +               (setenv "LINES" "24")
> 
> It looks like COLUMNS and LINES are not needed to fake a terminal. I was
> able to build successfully without them. Please check.
> 
I checked it and you are right. I assumed it would impact the tests,
because I know that crawl won't run in too small terminals. That doesn't
seem to be the case, so I removed it now.

> You can combine the two make commands into one.
> 
> Also note that only the last argument of apply needs to be a list. No
> need to cons* together to construct a list like you have done.
> 
Always nice to learn how I can make things shorter :)

> bison and flex are native-inputs. The bison and flex executables are
> required only at build time.
> 
Okay, I moved them into native and it still works.

> It would be nice if you could sort all inputs and native-inputs in
> alphabetical order. Not all package definitions do it. But, it does look
> neater.
> 
Okay, I reordered them.

Thank you very much, for your intensive help with cleaning up this package!

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