nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix

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{ stdenv, hostPlatform, fetchurl, xz }:
* The stdenv setup script now defines a generic builder that allows builders for typical Autoconf-style to be much shorten, e.g., . $stdenv/setup genericBuild The generic builder does lots of stuff automatically: - Unpacks source archives specified by $src or $srcs (it knows about gzip, bzip2, tar, zip, and unpacked source trees). - Determines the source tree. - Applies patches specified by $patches. - Fixes libtool not to search for libraries in /lib etc. - Runs `configure'. - Runs `make'. - Runs `make install'. - Strips debug information from static libraries. - Writes nested log information (in the format accepted by `log2xml'). There are also lots of hooks and variables to customise the generic builder. See `stdenv/generic/docs.txt'. * Adapted the base packages (i.e., the ones used by stdenv) to use the generic builder. * We now use `curl' instead of `wget' to download files in `fetchurl'. * Neither `curl' nor `wget' are part of stdenv. We shouldn't encourage people to download stuff in builders (impure!). * Updated some packages. * `buildinputs' is now `buildInputs' (but the old name also works). * `findInputs' in the setup script now prevents inputs from being processed multiple times (which could happen, e.g., if an input was a propagated input of several other inputs; this caused the size variables like $PATH to blow up exponentially in the worst case). * Patched GNU Make to write nested log information in the format accepted by `log2xml'. Also, prior to writing the build command, Make now writes a line `building X' to indicate what is being built. This is unfortunately often obscured by the gigantic tool invocations in many Makefiles. The actual build commands are marked `unimportant' so that they don't clutter pages generated by `log2html'. svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=845
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stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
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name = "gzip-${version}";
version = "1.8";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/gzip/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "1lxv3p4iyx7833mlihkn5wfwmz4cys5nybwpz3dfawag8kn6f5zz";
};
patches = stdenv.lib.optional hostPlatform.isDarwin stdenv.secure-format-patch;
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outputs = [ "out" "man" "info" ];
enableParallelBuilding = true;
nativeBuildInputs = [ xz.bin ];
# In stdenv-linux, prevent a dependency on bootstrap-tools.
makeFlags = "SHELL=/bin/sh GREP=grep";
meta = {
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homepage = https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/;
description = "GNU zip compression program";
longDescription =
''gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by
Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the
decompression part.
We developed this program as a replacement for compress because of
the Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by
compress. These patents made it impossible for us to use compress,
and we needed a replacement. The superior compression ratio of gzip
is just a bonus.
'';
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
};
}