nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libiconv/default.nix
Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(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.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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{ fetchurl, stdenv }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "libiconv-1.13.1";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/libiconv/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0jcsjk2g28bq20yh7rvbn8xgq6q42g8dkkac0nfh12b061l638sm";
};
# On Cygwin, Libtool produces a `.dll.a', which is not a "real" DLL
# (Windows' linker would need to be used somehow to produce an actual
# DLL.) Thus, build the static library too, and this is what Gettext
# will actually use.
configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isCygwin [ "--enable-static" ];
crossAttrs = {
# Disable stripping to avoid "libiconv.a: Archive has no index" (MinGW).
dontStrip = true;
dontCrossStrip = true;
};
meta = {
description = "An iconv(3) implementation";
longDescription = ''
Some programs, like mailers and web browsers, must be able to convert
between a given text encoding and the user's encoding. Other programs
internally store strings in Unicode, to facilitate internal processing,
and need to convert between internal string representation (Unicode)
and external string representation (a traditional encoding) when they
are doing I/O. GNU libiconv is a conversion library for both kinds of
applications.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
maintainers = [ ];
# This library is not needed on GNU platforms.
hydraPlatforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.cygwin ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.darwin ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.freebsd;
};
}