* perl is required at build time on darwin. Copied from the
mysql/5.5.x.nix
* CMake on darwin creates shared libraries with relative 'install_name'
paths which are made absolute by fixDarwinDylibNames.
See http://answers.opencv.org/question/4134/cmake-install_name_tool-absolute-path-for-library/
* The asm patch was needed to compile on darwin, though I do not
understand what is going on. Error before the patch:
[ 15%] Building C object mysys/CMakeFiles/mysys.dir/my_context.c.o
.../nix-build-mariadb-10.0.13.drv-1/mariadb-10.0.13/mysys/my_context.c:207:Unknown pseudo-op: .cfi_escape
.../nix-build-mariadb-10.0.13.drv-1/mariadb-10.0.13/mysys/my_context.c:207:Rest of line ignored. 1st junk character valued 48 (0).
make[2]: *** [mysys/CMakeFiles/mysys.dir/my_context.c.o] Error 1
(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.