The Bash patches update the install-headers-phase to make all the Bash headers available in bash:include. Basically, I copied the relevant portions of the Debian rules file for the bash-builtins package [1]. There is still some work that could be done — e.g. there are examples of loadable Bash builtins that could go in the docs.
The regex should be selecting any file whose name ends in .h in the "include/" directory of the source tarball (someone better double-check it though — I'm no regex expert!). I separated it from the existing file-copying routines because the contents of "include/" should go in the top-level of the output's "include/bash" directory. This is different from the files copied from other tarball directories — they get copied along with their folders. I also altered the code to use 'install-file' instead of 'mkdir-p' and 'copy-file', reducing the amount of boilerplate code. The recutils patch tells recutils where to find the Bash headers so that the recutils' Bash builtin 'readrec' can be built. [1] line 254 onwards: https://sources.debian.net/src/bash/4.3-11/debian/rules/ Leo Famulari (3): gnu: bash: Install more headers in "include" output. gnu: bash: Use 'install-file' instead of 'mkdir-p' and 'copy-file'. gnu: recutils: Build the Bash builtin, readrec. gnu/packages/bash.scm | 10 ++++++---- gnu/packages/databases.scm | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.6.1
