[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/exfatprogs: new package

[James Hilliard]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 7:09 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:14:05 -0600
> James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > exFAT filesystem userspace utilities
> >
> > We need a patch to fix:
> > error: unknown type name ‘ssize_t’
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>
>
> I was about to apply... but we already have package/exfat-utils/ in
> Buildroot. It's not the same source, but there seems to be a
> significant overlap between the two. Do you know why there are two
> projects ?
exfat-utils is basically the FUSE version of exfatprogs
>
> > +EXFATPROGS_VERSION = 1.0.1
> > +EXFATPROGS_SITE = $(call github,exfatprogs,exfatprogs,$(EXFATPROGS_VERSION))
> > +EXFATPROGS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
>
> License is GPL-2.0+, as indicated by the SPDX statements. No need to
> resend a new version just for that.
>
> > +EXFATPROGS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> > +EXFATPROGS_AUTORECONF = YES
> > +EXFATPROGS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
> > +HOST_EXFATPROGS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
>
> It is a bit silly that they require pkg-config... they don't use it for
> anything at all. They only check that pkg-config is available.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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