Re: [PATCH] NON-WORKING: new package: sent -- simple presentation tool

[Eric Bavier]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:35:13 +0000
ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> >  
> >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:44:51AM +0300, address@hidden wrote:  
> >>> From: Dmitry Bogatov <address@hidden>
> >>> 
> >>> This patch does not work. I did my best during 1.5 hours, but I failed
> >>> to actually build this package.
> >>> 
> >>> Here is information I can provide:
> >>> 
> >>>   - package builds and runs flawlessly on my main Debian system
> >>>   - guix build dies on #include <ft2build.h> on
> >>>     X11/Xft/Xft.h:39
> >>>   - this file (`ft2build.h`) belongs to `freetype` and should
> >>>     be propagated with `libxft'.
> >>>   - package `st', which also uses `libxft' build find for me.  
> >>
> >> I also found this "simple" software to not be so simple to package for
> >> Guix ;)
> >>
> >> Here is my working package definition, in my "out-of-tree" repo:
> >> https://github.com/lfam/pkgs/blob/master/leo/packages/sent.scm
> >>
> >> I was waiting for a little while before submitting my package definition
> >> to let upstream work out some of the early bugs. But now that 0.2 is
> >> out, perhaps it is time. Please feel free to submit your updated package
> >> definition!
> >>  
> > It works for me! So the problem boils dpwn to the missing
> > `-I/gnu/store/...-freetype/include/freetype2' include path...  
> 
> This was never finished. Could anyone pick this up and finish it?
> 
> Thanks.

This is my take on the patch.  It builds and works fine.

Dmitry, I added a copyright line for you; does it seem alright?

`~Eric

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