[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/asn1c: new host package

Heiko Thiery heiko.thiery at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 05:39:42 UTC 2020


Hi Baruch, Hi Sergio,

Am So., 19. Apr. 2020 um 05:41 Uhr schrieb Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>:
>
> Hi Heiko, Sergio,
>
> On Fri, Apr 17 2020, Heiko Thiery wrote:
> >> +ASN1C_VERSION = 0.9.28
> >> +ASN1C_SITE = https://github.com/vlm/asn1c/releases/download/v$(ASN1C_VERSION)
> >
> > You can use the github macro to set the <pkg>_SITE variable:
> > ASN1C_SITE = $(call github,vlm,asn1c,v$(ASN1C_VERSION))
>
> When the package author provides a tarball we usually prefer to use it.
>
>   If the package you wish to add does have a release section on GitHub,
>   the maintainer may have uploaded a release tarball, or the release may
>   just point to the automatically generated tarball from the git tag. If
>   there is a release tarball uploaded by the maintainer, we prefer to use
>   that since it may be slightly different (e.g. it contains a configure
>   script so we don’t need to do AUTORECONF).
>
> This is quoted from
> https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#github-download-url
>
> In this case the tarball indeed contains a pre-generated configure
> script.
>

You're right. The released version should be preferred.

> baruch
>
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Sorry for that mistake.

-- 
Heiko



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