nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/xsel/default.nix
Charles Strahan 4a4fd2747c
xsel: 1.2.0 -> git-2016-09-02
The last xsel release was in 2008. Since then, a number of bugs have
been fixed. For example, pasting a large chunk of text (>4000 chars)
into chrome would cause the current tab to hang indefinitely.

A couple examples in the wild:

https://github.com/kfish/xsel/issues/14
https://github.com/kfish/xsel/issues/13
https://github.com/kfish/xsel/pull/16
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=515401
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3116
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/4719
2016-09-21 14:16:59 -04:00

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{stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, libX11, autoreconfHook }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "xsel-unstable-${version}";
version = "2016-09-02";
src = fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "kfish";
repo = "xsel";
rev = "aa7f57eed805adb09e9c59c8ea841870e8206b81";
sha256 = "04mrc8j0rr7iy1k6brfxnx26pmxm800gh4nqrxn6j2lz6vd5y9m5";
};
buildInputs = [ libX11 autoreconfHook ];
# We need a README file, otherwise autoconf complains.
postUnpack = ''
mv $sourceRoot/README{.md,}
'';
meta = with lib; {
description = "Command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection";
homepage = "http://www.kfish.org/software/xsel";
license = licenses.mit;
maintainers = [ maintainers.cstrahan ];
platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
};
}