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FS#56271 - [expat] Moving to GitHub + build efficiency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kevin Dodd (Jesin) - Tuesday, 07 November 2017, 20:51 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Sunday, 10 December 2017, 14:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Expat has moved to GitHub. The new source URLs can still be computed from the pkgver, but doing so requires a trivial use of bash's "parameter expansion with pattern replacement" syntax.

Also, the current PKGBUILD neglects to "--disable-static" even though it does not enable "options=(staticlibs)", so it unnecessarily builds and tests a static version of the library that is then deleted during the packaging step.

The attached PKGBUILD fixes both of these problems.
   PKGBUILD (0.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Sunday, 10 December 2017, 14:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 16:42 GMT
Expat still hosts release tarballs on Sourceforge and I see no reason to switch. Added --disable-static.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 22:02 GMT
Looks like everything is redirecting to github, at least the URL should be updated before it goes away
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 22:14 GMT
Oh, fair enough.

(The URL would probably redirect indefinitely, but redirects are suboptimal...)
Comment by Kevin Dodd (Jesin) - Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 22:30 GMT
The PKGBUILD I attached in the original bug report works.

EDIT: I just realized I should update it to remove i686. New version incoming.
Comment by Kevin Dodd (Jesin) - Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 22:53 GMT
Here's an updated, working PKGBUILD.
https://ptpb.pw/7uK_.txt
   PKGBUILD (0.8 KiB)

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