Sunday, December 31, 2017

Re: NEW libb2

On 12/31/17 13:26, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> 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.

Why would you set this?

> 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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