Sunday, December 31, 2017

Re: NEW libb2

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 01:15:29PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote:
> On 12/31/17 12:15, Björn Ketelaars wrote:
> > Enclosed with this mail a tarball for libb2 a C library providing BLAKE2b,
> > BLAKE2s, BLAKE2bp, and BLAKE2sp. BLAKE2 is a cryptographic hash function
> > faster than MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, and SHA-3, yet is at least as secure as the
> > latest standard SHA-3.
> >
> > Borgbackup currently uses a bundled version of libb2. I would like to replace
> > use of this bundled version by this port.
> >
> > Comments/OKs?
> >
>
> Attached is an updated tarball.
> Changes/Fixes:
> * Use ${SETENV} in the pre-configure routine.
> * Improve pkg/DESCR
> * Remove a hardcoded -O3
> * Set CONFIGURE_ARGS so that things like -march=native don't happen
> * The library identifies itself as libb2-0.98, so rename package to
> libb2-0.98.20171225 to avoid future EPOCH bumps.
I was about to send a similar diff. What I'm still missing:

SEPARATE_BUILD=Yes can be set.

In pre-configure, use ./autogen.sh (containing `autoreconf -fvi') to
avoid adjusting the target in case the required steps in autogen.sh
change.

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