[bug#46376] [PATCH] gnu: tesseract-ocr: update to 4.1.1)

[Jelle Licht]

Hey Andy,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> updated patch:
>
> unit tests run, with some failures due to illegal instruction and
> others succeed, but these requires first manual downloading of the
> training data; I am not sure how that can be done as part of Guix
> package definition.  Help on that is much appreciated.  (details
> commented in the patch)

The illegal instruction stuff seems somehow problematic either way. The
training data seems to be generated via a not-really-trivial process, so
my guess is that to properly package this, we would really have to
generate the training data 'from source'. For now, it might make more
sense to have users "BYOTD" (bring your own training data) and leave it
out of the packaging story.

Andy, what would you think about dumbing down your patch so
tesseract-ocr simply doesn't run tests (or try to build them, for that
matter)? So sorry for sending you on this wild goose chase!

I'm willing to adjust and push such a change, unless someone has a
better idea.

Thanks,
 - Jelle