bug#27563: [PATCH] gnu: ghostscript: Add phase "remove-timestamps".

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript): Add phase "remove-timestamps".
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm b/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
>> index 1cb651c96..56e05cd77 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
>> @@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ printing, and psresize, for adjusting page sizes.")
>>                       (substitute* "base/gscdef.c"
>>                         (("GS_DOCDIR")
>>                          "\"~/.guix-profile/share/doc/ghostscript\""))))
>> +        (add-after 'configure 'remove-timestamps
>> +                   (lambda _
>> +                     (substitute* "base/mkromfs.c"
>> +                       (("time\\(NULL\\)") "0U"))
>> +                     #t))
>>          (replace 'build
>>            (lambda _
>>              ;; Build 'libgs.so', but don't build the statically-linked 'gs'
>> 
>
> is it possible to patch this in a snippet?

Agreed; your second version LGTM.

Like Leo, I’d invite you to check the state of ‘core-updates’.  :-)
Depending on how far it went, perhaps we can push it there along with
the netpbm one, cancel pending builds, and start a new evaluation (let
me know if you want to do these.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.