guix/gnu/packages/patches/guile-gdbm-ffi-support-gdbm-1.14.patch

From 1da99396dc65993ba34ac0370ca5d6acda6a3322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 07:02:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for gdbm-1.14.

As of gdbm-1.14, 'gdbm_errno' no longer exists as a binary interface.
It has been replaced by 'gdbm_errno_location', a function that returns
int*.  We now use this new interface if it's available.
---
 gdbm.scm | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdbm.scm b/gdbm.scm
index b92992f..4d38cc3 100644
--- a/gdbm.scm
+++ b/gdbm.scm
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 ;; along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+;; Modified by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> in March 2018 to support
+;; gdbm-1.14 with its new 'gdbm_errno_location' interface.
+
 (define-module (gdbm)
   #:use-module (system foreign)
   #:use-module (rnrs bytevectors)
@@ -151,10 +154,21 @@
 
 ;;; errors
 
-(define %errno (dynamic-pointer "gdbm_errno" libgdbm))
+(define %list-int
+  (list int))
+
+(define (dereference-int ptr)
+  (apply (lambda (errno) errno)
+         (parse-c-struct ptr %list-int)))
+
+(define %errno-location
+  (or (false-if-exception
+       (let ((func (dynamic-func "gdbm_errno_location" libgdbm)))
+         (pointer->procedure '* func '())))
+      (const (dynamic-pointer "gdbm_errno" libgdbm))))
 
 (define (gdbm-errno)
-  (pointer-address (dereference-pointer %errno)))
+  (dereference-int (%errno-location)))
 
 (define (gdbm-error)
   (error (pointer->string (%gdbm-strerror (gdbm-errno)))))
-- 
2.16.2