Haskell programs depend on gmp to implement the unbounded Integer type. Without
static variants of gmp we cannot build statically linked Haskell programs, what
some users have found desirable in the past. So far, we've used an override to
derive our own copy of gmp in the Haskell ecosystem, but this patch ends the
dichotomy between Haskell and the rest of Nixpkgs by enabling static gmp
libraries in the default build default.
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
* By default, QEMU's CPUID identifies the CPU as GenuineIntel, family
6, model 2. Since there never was a physical 64-bit CPU like that,
64-bit GMP calls abort(). This causes every program linked against
libgmp to fail under QEMU (unless an appropriate -cpu or -M flag is
used), which is rather bad, especially for users of hosting
providers who cannot change QEMU's flags. The patch causes GMP to
be more liberal (i.e., use non-CPU-specific implementations).
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=33531
Merge conflicts:
* unzip (almost trivial)
* dvswitch (trivial)
* gmp (copied result of `git merge`)
The last item introduced gmp-5.0.3, thus full rebuild.
+ensureDir->mkdir -p in TeX packages was catched by git but not svn.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=32091
some redundant builds (e.g., GMP was built three times).
* Updated GMP to 5.0.2.
* Updated PPL to 0.11.2.
* Remove ad hoc flags to build GCC's dependencies statically.
Instead, use the ‘makeStaticLibraries’ stdenv adapter.
* Build GMP with C++ support by default.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=30891
