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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-07-13 12:12:34 +0200 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2012-07-13 12:12:34 +0200 |
commit | f66963df93f9ebf93c550914ffc9450bea75c7fd (patch) | |
tree | 7fcfaefa2a62842c381526112cab3f7f9403b6c1 /distro/base.scm | |
parent | 1788a456376f795295673f0658848115ea33a486 (diff) | |
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distro: Add libffi.
* distro/base.scm (libffi): New variable.
(guile-2.0): Use it.
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1 files changed, 49 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/distro/base.scm b/distro/base.scm index dce43b7bd6..765826b504 100644 --- a/distro/base.scm +++ b/distro/base.scm @@ -421,6 +421,54 @@ extensible. It supports many SRFIs.") (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/") (license "LGPLv2+"))) +(define-public libffi + (let ((post-install-phase + ;; Install headers in the right place. + '(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) + (define out (assoc-ref outputs "out")) + (mkdir (string-append out "/include")) + (with-directory-excursion + (string-append out "/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include") + (for-each (lambda (h) + (format #t "moving `~a' to includedir~%" h) + (rename-file h (string-append out "/include/" h))) + (scandir "." + (lambda (x) + (not (member x '("." "..")))))))))) + (package + (name "libffi") + (version "3.0.9") + (source (origin + (method http-fetch) + (uri ;; FIXME: should be ftp:// + (string-append "http://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/" + name "-" version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0ln4jbpb6clcsdpb9niqk0frgx4k0xki96wiv067ig0q4cajb7aq")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments `(#:modules ((guix build utils) (guix build gnu-build-system) + (ice-9 ftw) (srfi srfi-26)) + #:phases (alist-cons-after 'install 'post-install + ,post-install-phase + %standard-phases))) + (description "libffi, a foreign function call interface library") + (long-description + "The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface +to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any +function specified by a call interface description at run-time. + +FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface is +the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language +to call code written in another language. The libffi library really only +provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign +function interface. A layer must exist above libffi that handles type +conversions for values passed between the two languages.") + (home-page "http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/") + + ;; See <http://github.com/atgreen/libffi/blob/master/LICENSE>. + (license "free, non-copyleft")))) + (define-public guile-2.0 (package (name "guile") @@ -435,7 +483,7 @@ extensible. It supports many SRFIs.") (build-system gnu-build-system) (native-inputs `(("xz" ,(nixpkgs-derivation* "xz")) ("pkgconfig" ,(nixpkgs-derivation* "pkgconfig")))) - (inputs `(("libffi" ,(nixpkgs-derivation* "libffi")) + (inputs `(("libffi" ,libffi) ("readline" ,readline))) (propagated-inputs |