ascii: New package, version 3.12.

Quite a useful tool, especially for non English native speakers to find out what
people mean with things like "hiccup", "boink", "blugle" and whatnot.

And of course it's quite useful to convert between hex/oct/dec/bin.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/ascii/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/ascii/default.nix
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+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "ascii-${version}";
+  version = "3.12";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "17jhmmdbhzzaai0lr5aslg0nmqchq1ygdxwd8pgl7qn2jnxhc6ci";
+  };
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    sed -i -e 's|$(DESTDIR)/usr|$(out)|g' Makefile
+  '';
+
+  preInstall = ''
+    mkdir -vp "$out/bin" "$out/share/man/man1"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Interactive ASCII name and synonym chart";
+    homepage = "http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}