All the programs provided by ncurses were being installed to the $dev
output, but several of them are intended for runtime use, e.g. to
operate on the running terminal. These user-facing programs are moved to
the $bin output.
Several packages referred to "${ncurses}/bin" or "${ncurses.dev}/bin" at
runtime; these paths are also updated to refer to "${ncurses.bin}/bin".
The $lib output refers to the terminfo database in $out, which is about
10x larger than the ncurses shared library. Splitting these outputs
saves a small amount of space for any derivations that use the terminfo
database but not the ncurses library, but we do not have evidence that
any such exist.
The most complex problems were from dealing with switches reverted in
the meantime (gcc5, gmp6, ncurses6).
It's likely that darwin is (still) broken nontrivially.
- move headers directly to $out/include and set up symlinks.
Some packages were failing to find them (e.g. mariadb).
- postInstall was failing, only it was ignored due to a bug;
now it succeeds.
(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.
It's to separate from other changes coming from master.
Conflicts:
pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/2.18/common.nix (taking both changes)
pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/5_4.nix (deleted)
We already have backward compatibility symlinks for ncurses libraries
and pkg-config files (when built in unicode/wide mode). The last bit is
to add a symlink from ncurses5-config to ncursesw5-config, which is what
this commit does.
To make e.g. "pkg-config --cflags ncursesw" work.
The ncurses expression, when built in unicode/wide char mode, provides
backward compatibility symlinks from lib<name>.so to lib<name>w.so.
Provide similar symlinks for the *.pc files: <name>.pc -> <name>w.pc.
${out} in configureFlags isn't expanded, so ncursesw5-config ends up
expanding ${out} at *runtime*. Here is the relevant ncursesw5-config
snippet showing how includedir gets its value at runtime.
bindir="${exec_prefix}/bin"
includedir="${out}/include"
libdir="${exec_prefix}/lib"
datadir="${prefix}/share"
mandir="${prefix}/man"
When running in a plain shell you get this:
$ ncursesw5-config --cflags
-I/include/ncursesw -I/include
And when run in a nix-build shell for e.g. gpsd:
$ ncursesw5-config --cflags
-I/nix/store/HASH-gpsd-3.10/include/ncursesw -I/nix/store/HASH-gpsd-3.10/include
This is clearly wrong.
Q: How come this has gone undetected for years?
A: It seems few packages use ncursesw5-config to get the compiler
flags. For example, our python curses module builds its own compiler
flags.
Fix this by moving the --includedir setting to preConfigure where shell
variables are expanded.
This is needed for the ncurses cabal package to compile. It uses
include/ncursesw/curses.h, without trying include/curses.h first. The
files are provided through include/ncursesw on a clean Debian too, in
the unicode case (when the libncursesw5-dev is installed).
Signed-off-by: Domen Kozar <domen@dev.si>
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