- there were many easy merge conflicts
- cc-wrapper needed nontrivial changes
Many other problems might've been created by interaction of the branches,
but stdenv and a few other packages build fine now.
if test "${startperl:0:1}" = "#" ; then
startperl="\\$startperl"
fi
This results in an error:
checking for perl... /nix/store/6qvjjaywj6qf8jn9splpiz9qap01w36w-perl-5.16.3/bin/perl
./configure: 2264: ./configure.lineno: Bad substitution
builder for ‘/nix/store/nk9y51xlzsbkhswc5cpl3hkryg2xw85g-atool-0.39.0.drv’ failed with exit code 2
This license is BAD and it needs to be caught. You need to agree to the
use conditions or you have to remove the software from your machine
which makes it not redistributable.
cc @ehmry
(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.
