Since bowtie's Makefile explicitly checks that the system it is built on
is x86_64 building on MIPS and i686 should be disabled. (See bug#19708
for discussion.)
This is what the attached patch does.
~~ Ricardo
>From 9789efe14b8cf00ebf6b39a63146483fbe220535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:35:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: bowtie: only x86_64 is supported.
* gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (bowtie): Add 'supported-systems' field.
---
gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
index ff6c337..3ea82ba 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ aligning to relatively long (e.g. mammalian) genomes. Bowtie 2 indexes the
genome with an FM Index to keep its memory footprint small: for the human
genome, its memory footprint is typically around 3.2 GB. Bowtie 2 supports
gapped, local, and paired-end alignment modes.")
+ (supported-systems '("x86_64-linux"))))
(license license:gpl3+)))
(define-public samtools
--
1.9.3
