From f7cfcbd1f9bddb8ad6f99c9e8cb1a91ff5dd30ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Llu=C3=ADs=20Batlle=20i=20Rossell?=
 <viric@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:51:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Making gpm generate proper files in $out/lib, that allow good
 cross-linking.  I had to do this to get the FB driver in links2 - it wants
 gpm to build, and without these changes, the "-lgpm" did not work.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=24932
---
 pkgs/servers/gpm/default.nix | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/servers/gpm/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/gpm/default.nix
index 9ae20cd2c13..cb664eac253 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/gpm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/gpm/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ''
       sed -e 's/[$](MKDIR)/mkdir -p /' -i doc/Makefile.in
     '';
-      
+
+  # Its configure script does not allow --disable-static
+  # Disabling this, we make cross-builds easier, because having
+  # cross-built static libraries we either have to disable stripping
+  # or fixing the gpm users, because there -lgpm will fail.
+  postInstall = ''
+    rm -f $out/lib/*.a
+    ln -s $out/lib/libgpm.so.2 $out/lib/libgpm.so
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/;
     description = "A daemon that provides mouse support on the Linux console";