Clément <cbarthel...@fdn.fr> skribis:
> So I don't know if building it from source is feasible for
> Guix. I could try to have a look, but have zero experience with
> Guix or Perl build system. Anyway, the biber package is indeed
> available on sourceforge².
I gave it a try, and below is an initial patch. It misses some of the
dependencies required to run the test suite, but that shouldn’t be too
hard to address; the next thing is to address issues reported by ‘guix
lint biber’. Would you like to give it a try?
Note that I didn’t use the Sourceforge URL because they were all
redirecting to the latest release (2.23), despite the “1.8” or “1.9” in
the URL.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
diff --git a/gnu/packages/texlive.scm b/gnu/packages/texlive.scm
index 6480b25..23360d5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/texlive.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/texlive.scm
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
#:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
#:use-module (guix packages)
#:use-module (guix download)
+ #:use-module (guix git-download)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+ #:use-module (guix build-system perl)
#:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
#:use-module (gnu packages)
#:use-module (gnu packages bash)
@@ -311,3 +313,23 @@ to manage bibliographic references. Automatic execution of dvips to produce
PostScript documents is also included, as well as usage of pdfLaTeX to produce
PDF documents.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public biber
+ (package
+ (name "biber")
+ (version "1.8")
+ (source (origin
+ (method git-fetch)
+ (uri (git-reference
+ (url "https://github.com/plk/biber";)
+ (commit (string-append "v" version))))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0vpi11skvixdsp4pc1ppmdqiijv6gfj4cxal3vbwrkk07ah4sxv4"))))
+ (build-system perl-build-system)
+ ;; FIXME: Add module for Perl's Data/Compare.pm etc.
+ (inputs `(("perl-ipc-run3" ,perl-ipc-run3)))
+ (home-page "https://github.com/plk/biber";)
+ (synopsis #f)
+ (description #f)
+ (license license:gpl1+))) ;GPLv1+ | Artistic
