[Buildroot] [PATCH] iperf: bump to version 2.0.9
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Jul 31 08:25:41 UTC 2016
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:09:08AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 07:38:53 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > [Thomas:
> > > - change the download location to use downloads.sourceforge.net
> >
> > What is the advantage of downloads.sourceforge.net? Many packages still use
> > just sourceforge.net:
>
> Consistency amongst all packages? There are 181 packages that use
> downloads.sourceforge.net...
>
> > $ git grep _SITE[^\.]*sourceforge -- package/ |wc -l
> > 20
>
> ... which is a lot more than 20 packages.
OK.
> > > - turn the patch into a Git-formatted one, since upstream uses Git as
> > > its version control system
> >
> > Where have you found a link to that repo? Only after googling for "iperf2 git"
> > I found an indication to its existence in https://github.com/daynix/iperf2.
>
> From https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/, click on "Code".
That's the first thing I tried. Looking there again all I see is an old Svn
repo (last update is r8 from 2014-09-14). What am I missing?
> (Yes the SourceForge UI is terrible).
>
> > > - as noticed by Khem Raj, a C99 compiler is needed for the bool type,
> > > so added AC_PROG_CC_C99 to configure.ac, and consequently added
> > > IPERF_AUTORECONF = YES.
> > > - removed two <pkg>_CONF_ENV variables related to the bool type, they
> > > were added by an older commit
> > > e13ac0ec8788092c6508636da94fe0198c18dffd back when we had a
> > > config.cache shared between packages (which is no longer the case
> > > today)]
> > >
> > > If you could submit the updated patch upstream, it would be good.
>
> Well, I was hoping you would do it :-)
It's on my TODO (AKA mail Inbox).
baruch
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