Re: lsof

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> the lsof tarball contains the source in a two-stage process: After 
> unpacking, one is left with lsof_4.87_src.tar, which needs to be unpacked 
> as well.

Weird.

> I tried the following:
>
>    (arguments
>     `(#:phases
>       (alist-replace
>        'unpack
>        (lambda* (#:key source name version #:allow-other-keys)
>          (let ((unpack (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'unpack))
>                (inner (string-append name "_" version "_src.tar")))
>            (apply unpack (list #:source source))
>            (apply unpack (list #:source inner))))
>        %standard-phases)))
>
> But apparently, NAME and VERSION are not passed through as function 
> arguments (they are #f). Would it make sense to changes this?

It wouldn’t hurt to pass them, and it may be helpful in cases like this.
So feel free to add it to build-system/gnu.scm and gnu-build-system.scm.

> Or do you see a preferable way of doing the second stage unpacking?

You could use (find-files "." "\\.tar$") to find the tar file, I guess.

Ludo’.