Re: [PATCH] gnu packages maxima: Update to 5.34.1 and fix dependencies

[Ludovic Courtès]

Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:

> The build procedure (make) generates some temporary files. When I
> build the package with guix, guix extracts the program tar.gz archive
> in the temporary directory
>
> /tmp/nix-build-maxima-5.34.1.drv-0
>
> However, maxima attempts to create temporary files in
>
> /tmp/nix-build-maxima-5.34.1
>
> and fails. To correct for this I've explicitly passed "TMPDIR=/tmp" to
> make. Is this the expected behavior?

No, it looks like Maxima’s build system erroneously strips out part of
the directory name.  In that case, passing TMPDIR=/tmp seems right.

> From 998303ea042361727837baf38193462148c07565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Federico Beffa <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:20:02 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu packages maxima: Update to 5.34.1 and fix dependencies
>
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm(maxima): Update to 5.34.1 which fixes a bug in the
>   plotting capabilities (plot2d, ...) present in the previous version
>   (5.33.0).  Add the 'gnuplot' depencency which is required to generate plots.
>   Add 'tcl' and 'tk' as dependencies: they are required by the 'xmaxima'
>   command.

Pushed with some tweaks: I’ve added a copyright line for you (let me
know if it’s wrong), replaced tabs with spaces (if you use Emacs, the
.dir-locals.el normally ensures that), and moved parts of the commit log
above to comments in the source (info "(standards) Change Log
Concepts").

Thank you!

Ludo’.