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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
;;; Copyright © 2019 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
;;; your option) any later version.
;;;
;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;;
;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

(define-module (gnu packages groff)
  #:use-module (guix licenses)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix utils)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix git-download)
  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
  #:use-module (gnu packages)
  #:use-module (gnu packages bison)
  #:use-module (gnu packages ghostscript)
  #:use-module (gnu packages netpbm)
  #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
  #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo))

(define-public groff
  (package
   (name "groff")
   (version "1.22.4")
   (source (origin
            (method url-fetch)
            (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/groff/groff-" version
                                ".tar.gz"))
            (sha256 (base32
                     "14q2mldnr1vx0l9lqp9v2f6iww24gj28iyh4j2211hyynx67p3p7"))))
   (build-system gnu-build-system)
   (outputs '("out"
              "doc"))                    ;12MiB of PS, PDF, HTML, and examples

   ;; Note: groff's HTML backend uses executables from netpbm when they are in
   ;; $PATH.  In practice, not having them doesn't prevent it from install its
   ;; own HTML doc, nor does it change its capabilities, so we removed netpbm
   ;; from 'inputs'.

   (inputs `(("ghostscript" ,ghostscript)))
   (native-inputs `(("bison" ,bison)
                    ("perl" ,perl)
                    ("psutils" ,psutils)
                    ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
   (arguments
    `(#:parallel-build? #f   ; parallel build fails
      #:phases
      (modify-phases %standard-phases
        (add-after 'unpack 'setenv
          (lambda _
            (setenv "GS_GENERATE_UUIDS" "0")
            #t))
        (add-after 'unpack 'fix-docdir
          (lambda _         ;see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55461
            (substitute* "Makefile.in"
              (("^docdir =.*") "docdir = @docdir@\n")))))))
   (synopsis "Typesetting from plain text mixed with formatting commands")
   (description
    "Groff is a typesetting package that reads plain text and produces
formatted output based on formatting commands contained within the text.  It
is usually the formatter of \"man\" documentation pages.")
   (license gpl3+)
   (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/")))

(define-public groff-minimal
  ;; Minimialist groff for use by man-db.  Its closure size is less than half
  ;; that of the full-blown groff.
  (package
    (inherit groff)
    (name "groff-minimal")
    (synopsis "Minimalist variant of Groff for use by man-db")
    (outputs '("out"))

    ;; Omit the DVI, PS, PDF, and HTML backends.
    (inputs '())
    (native-inputs `(("bison" ,bison)
                     ("perl" ,perl)))

    (arguments
     `(#:disallowed-references (,perl)

       #:configure-flags '("--with-doc=no")

       ,@(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments groff)
           ((#:phases phases)
            `(modify-phases ,phases
               (add-after 'unpack 'disable-relocatability
                 (lambda _
                   ;; Groff contains a Rube Goldberg-esque relocator for the
                   ;; file "charset.alias".
                   ;; It tries to find the current executable using realpath,
                   ;; a do-it-yourself search in $PATH and so on.
                   ;; Furthermore, the routine that does the search is buggy
                   ;; in that it doesn't handle error cases when they arise.
                   ;; This causes preconv to segfault when trying to look up
                   ;; the file "charset.alias" in the NULL location.
                   ;; The "charset.alias" parser is a copy of gnulib's, and a
                   ;; non-broken version of gnulib's "charset.alias" parser
                   ;; is part of glibc's libcharset.
                   ;; However, groff unconditionally uses their own
                   ;; "charset.alias" parser, but then DOES NOT INSTALL the
                   ;; file "charset.alias" when glibc is too new.
                   ;; In Guix, our file "charset.alias" only contains an
                   ;; obscure alias for ASCII and nothing else.
                   ;; So just disable relocation and make the entire
                   ;; "charset.alias" lookup fail.
                   ;; See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30785>
                   ;; for details.
                   (substitute* "src/libs/libgroff/Makefile.sub"
                    (("-DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1") ""))
                   ;; That file contains a crash bug--so make sure that
                   ;; its contents are not there.
                   (call-with-output-file "src/libs/libgroff/relocate.cpp"
                     (lambda (port)
                       #t))
                   #t))
               (add-after 'install 'remove-non-essential-programs
                 (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
                   ;; Keep only the programs that man-db needs at run time,
                   ;; and make sure we don't pull in Perl.
                   (let ((out  (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                         (kept '("eqn" "neqn" "pic" "tbl" "refer" "preconv"
                                 "nroff" "groff" "troff" "grotty")))
                     (for-each (lambda (file)
                                 (unless (member (basename file) kept)
                                   (delete-file file)))
                               (find-files (string-append out "/bin")))

                     ;; Remove a bunch of unneeded Perl scripts.
                     (for-each delete-file (find-files out "\\.pl$"))
                     (for-each delete-file
                               (find-files out "BuildFoundries"))

                     ;; Remove ~3 MiB from share/groff/X.Y/font/devBACKEND
                     ;; corresponding to the unused backends.
                     (for-each delete-file-recursively
                               (find-files out "^dev(dvi|ps|pdf|html|lj4)$"
                                           #:directories? #t))
                     #t))))))))))

;; There are no releases, so we take the latest commit.
(define-public roffit
  (let ((commit "e5228388e3faf2b7f1ae5bd048ad46ed565304c6")
        (revision "1"))
    (package
      (name "roffit")
      (version (string-append "0.11-" revision "." (string-take commit 9)))
      (source (origin
                (method git-fetch)
                (uri (git-reference
                      (url "https://github.com/bagder/roffit.git")
                      (commit commit)))
                (file-name (string-append "roffit-" commit "-checkout"))
                (sha256
                 (base32
                  "1y7ndbqciy7h0khlpi1bv4v1614vhybnmm4jysj6fwxkw9cwv1nc"))))
      (build-system gnu-build-system)
      (arguments
       `(#:test-target "test"
         #:make-flags
         (list (string-append "INSTALLDIR="
                              (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/bin"))
         #:phases
         (modify-phases %standard-phases
           (delete 'configure)
           (add-before 'install 'pre-install
             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
               (mkdir-p (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out")
                                       "/bin"))
               #t)))))
      (inputs
       `(("perl" ,perl)))
      (home-page "https://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/")
      (synopsis "Convert nroff files to HTML")
      (description
       "Roffit is a program that reads an nroff file and outputs an HTML file.
It is typically used to display man pages on a web site.")
      (license expat))))