Before this commit, we only built the main ACL2 executable. Most users
will also want the standard library (the "Community Books"), so after
this commit, we build the entire `make everything` suite, which includes
essentially everything provided in the ACL2 repository.
There's also a new top-level package called `acl2-minimal` which has
just the core ACL2 executable, for those who really only want that.
Future work: modularize the build so that we can support multiple
different subsets of the standard library. A lot of the stuff in this
complete build is probably superfluous to almost all users. Also,
because some of the books have unclear or idiosyncratic licenses, the
full build will not be cached on cache.nixos.org, and installing it will
mean spending a few hours building it. So it would be good to have a
pared down build which excluded non-free books and things that people
rarely or never use.
The `make regression` line was failing because the expression was
downloading a core-system-only, no-libraries source tarball. I
switched to using fetchFromGitHub, which downloads the full source
code -- the core system as well as the "community books",
i.e. libraries -- but the libraries unfortunately do not build yet
because they have more dependencies than the core system, and they
also run into some impurity problems during the build process.
This commit changes the ACL2 package so that at least the user will
obtain the latest version of the core system, even though they won't
get the community books. In a later commit I hope to fix this; it
will require either changes to ACL2 itself, or a patch to be applied
to ACL2 in nixpkgs.
ACL2 7.4 has no trouble building on the current version of SBCL in
nixpkgs, so I let it do so instead of using the ancient SBCL version
1.2.0 from 2014.
I also added myself as a maintainer to this package, since I'm an
active contributor to the ACL2 project and am interested in seeing it
working on Nix.
ACL2 = A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp. It is
a Lisp sublanguage and a correctness prover for it.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16708
