Hi Ricardo, I myself am running Coreboot and libreboot, but I have Vendor BIOS machines I can test on aswell. Thanks for your testing and notes. I will try this as soon as I have time and get back to you with results. Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 4.0K bytes: > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > >> It won’t work when it’s in the store because we cannot write to the > >> store. Even after copying it out of the store and changing permissions > >> it would simply crash. This could be a problem with my Libreboot > >> machine, but the first problem is bad enough. > >> > >> If the software cannot be used when it is installed to the store then I > >> don’t think it should be in the store at all. I think we should drop > >> this patch as the package is not actually usable. > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > The alternative is to also install a wrapper script to “bin” that > > essentially does this: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > qemu-system-i386 -snapshot -boot a -fda $prefix/share/colorforth/cf2012.img > > > > It still crashes for me but at least it doesn’t complain about store > > permissions. If you can get this to run on your computer then please > > send a final patch that incorporates all of these suggestions. > > Otherwise I think it may not be worth spending more time on a toy > > package like this. > > > > What do you think? > > FWIW here’s the latest version of the diff: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > diff --git a/gnu/packages/forth.scm b/gnu/packages/forth.scm > index 6d66faf5d..4ab8f20a9 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/forth.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/forth.scm > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU > -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 > +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Sou Bunnbu > ;;; > ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. > @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ > #: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 (gnu packages assembly) > #:use-module (gnu packages m4)) > > (define-public gforth > @@ -58,3 +60,42 @@ and history. A generic virtual machine environment, vmgen, is also > included.") > (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/gforth/") > (license license:gpl3+))) > + > +(define-public colorforth > + (let ((commit "b518ff966955f0b196e7bb8f85337284fa23e29e") > + (revision "1")) > + (package > + (name "colorforth") > + (version (string-append "0.0.0-" revision "." (string-take commit 7))) > + (source (origin > + (method git-fetch) > + (uri (git-reference > + (url "https://github.com/narke/colorForth.git") > + (commit commit))) > + (sha256 > + (base32 > + "1q5szb9yi3nspbvnq0js6w24sb936ahjk828il760p0xpj5dsl45")))) > + (arguments > + `(#:tests? #f > + #:phases > + (modify-phases %standard-phases > + (delete 'configure) ; No configure script > + (replace 'install ; No install target > + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) > + (install-file "cf2012.img" > + (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") > + "/share/colorforth/")) > + #t))))) > + (native-inputs > + `(("nasm" ,nasm))) > + (build-system gnu-build-system) > + (home-page "https://github.com/narke/colorForth") > + (synopsis "Native 32-bit colorForth for PCs, Bochs and Qemu") > + (description > + "Colorforth is a @code{colorForth} implementation written in x86 > +assembly. It is a dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctation, > +includes its own operating system and produces extremely compact programs. > +Applications compile from pre-parsed source. Colorforth applications can be > +run using @code{Bochs} and @code{Qemu}. It is adapted from > +@url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/colorforth, colorforth}.") > + (license license:public-domain)))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > > -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org