Patch taken from Debian sid.  Adapted to 4.2.4.6 for Guix by Tobias
Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>.

Description: Support uncompressing and compressing soft links.
 Historically, ncompress for Debian has been built using a command line
 directly in debian/rules.  For 4.2.4.5-1, I simplified by swtching to the
 upstream Makefile.  However, that caused a regression - the Debian version of
 ncompress has always successfully handled soft links, but this stopped
 working.  To revert to the original behavior, I need to remove -DLSTAT from
 the build options, to be consistent with how the code was previously built.
Author: Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/918836
Index: ncompress/GNUmakefile
===================================================================
--- ncompress.orig/GNUmakefile
+++ ncompress/GNUmakefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ distclean: cleanup
 
 Makefile: Makefile.def GNUmakefile
 	sed \
-		-e 's:options= :options= -DUTIME_H -DLSTAT :' \
+		-e 's:options= :options= -DUTIME_H :' \
 		Makefile.def > Makefile
 
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<tr><td><span title='2021-06-23 23:35:27 +0200'>2021-06-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/compile-all.scm?id=ef82ba9dd94369926eb13325d5e7da4306d23dd7'>build: Makefile splits Scheme compilation in four steps.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Fixes &lt;https://bugs.gnu.org/48963&gt;.
Reported by Julien Lepiller &lt;julien@lepiller.eu&gt;.

This reduces peak memory consumption to something less unreasonable.

* Makefile.am (make-go): Depend on 'make-*-go' targets; remove body.
(guile-compilation-rule): New function.
(MODULES_CORE, MODULES_PACKAGES, MODULES_SYSTEM, MODULES_CLI): New
variables.
&lt;top level&gt;: Call 'guile-compilation-rule' 4 times.
* build-aux/compile-all.scm &lt;top level&gt;: Expect "--total" and
"--processed".  Take them into account when displaying progress
reports.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-06-18 14:18:06 +0200'>2021-06-18</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/compile-all.scm?id=003728cfab907be5df1411c5faaf466a2b8d5ba2'>build: Remove Guile 2.2 workaround.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/compile-all.scm &lt;top level&gt;: Remove Guile 2.2 workaround.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-04-12 00:00:59 +0200'>2020-04-12</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/compile-all.scm?id=27a1e4fd109f6df9f687958cfead0d3e41e330aa'>build: Cap build parallelism on i686.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>Works around &lt;https://bugs.gnu.org/40522&gt;.

* build-aux/compile-all.scm (parallel-job-count*): New procedure.
&lt;top level&gt;: Use it instead of 'parallel-job-count'.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-06-25 17:41:24 +0200'>2019-06-25</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/compile-all.scm?id=ee700da584370330331ed09eabafc94a19892784'>build: Report build errors via 'report-load-error'.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/compile-all.scm: Wrap 'compile-files' call in 'catch'.
Attempt to resort to 'report-load-error' in (guix ui) to print the
error.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-04-19 17:46:40 +0200'>2019-04-19</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/compile-all.scm?id=04b5ac212f33fc20696fbe43816a1a86aad1a9f2'>build: Show completion percentage while building.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/compile-all.scm (%): New procedure.
(command-line): Use it to report completion.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>