* gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl-ipc-system-simple): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/perl.scm | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index a11f036..ea6e350 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -2774,6 +2774,33 @@ Perlish API and none of the bloat and rarely used
features of IPC::Run.")
allowing data to be efficiently communicated between processes.")
(license (package-license perl))))
+(define-public perl-ipc-system-simple
+ (package
+ (name "perl-ipc-system-simple")
+ (version "1.25")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PJ/PJF/IPC-System-Simple-"
+ version
+ ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0fsdb81shjj4hifyyzvj7vpkhq5jrfhlcpw2xbjfi1mqz8fsmdpi"))))
+ (build-system perl-build-system)
+ (home-page
+ "http://search.cpan.org/dist/IPC-System-Simple";)
+ (synopsis
+ "Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics")
+ (description "Calling Perl's in-built system() function is easy,
+determining if it was successful is hard. Let's face it, $? isn't the nicest
+variable in the world to play with, and even if you do check it, producing a
+well-formatted error string takes a lot of work.
+
+IPC::System::Simple takes the hard work out of calling external commands.")
+ (license (package-license perl))))
+
(define-public perl-json
(package
(name "perl-json")
--
2.8.4
