Adding a folding-at-home client.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15122

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/misc/foldingathome/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/foldingathome/default.nix
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+++ b/pkgs/misc/foldingathome/default.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux";
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "folding-at-home-6.02";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.02-Linux.tgz;
+    sha256 = "01nwi0lb4vv0xg4k04i2fbf5v5qgabl70jm5cgvw1ibgqjz03910";
+  };
+
+  unpackPhase = "tar xvzf $src";
+
+  # Otherwise it doesn't work at all, even ldd thinks it's not a dynamic executable
+  dontStrip = true;
+
+  # This program, to run with '-smp', wants to execute the program mpiexec
+  # as "./mpiexec", although it also expects to write the data files into "."
+  # I suggest, if someone wants to run it, in the data directory set a link
+  # to the store for 'mpiexec', so './mpiexec' will work. That link better
+  # be considered a gcroot.
+  installPhase = ''
+    BINFILES="fah6 mpiexec";
+    for a in $BINFILES; do 
+      patchelf --set-interpreter $(cat $NIX_GCC/nix-support/dynamic-linker) $a
+    done
+    ensureDir $out/bin
+    cp $BINFILES $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://folding.stanford.edu/;
+    description = "Folding@home distributed computing client";
+    license = "unfree";
+  };
+}