Library Ports

[Nobody III]

Okay, sounds good. Maybe we could use lzma (tar.xz) for some of the bigger
depot packages. A higher compression ratio would be particularly useful in
the future for Qt 5.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...>
wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> On 08.11.2017 02:36, Nobody III wrote:
> > I have ported the following libraries:
> > lz4
> > liblzma
> > libarchive
> >
> > They are all in my genode-desktop-environment repository
> > (https://github.com/NobodyIII/genode-desktop-environment). Should any of
> > these be added to the official Genode repository, or should they all be
> > added to genode-world?
>
> cool! Thanks for proposing the inclusion of these ports into Genode.
> Coincidentally, I have recently ported libarchive myself. It still
> resides on a topic branch. The corresponding issue is:
>
>   https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/2528
>
> My port differs from your's in that it avoids hosting the generated
> config.h in our git repository. Instead it comes with a tiny
> hand-crafted version of this file. Please also note the fixup commit on
> my branch, which adds the untar example.
>
> Could you imagine taking this version as the basis for your branch and
> possibly enhance it with the additional features you need (enabling lz4,
> lzma)?
>
> Regarding the question where to put them, the ports should be added to
> the official Genode repository - not genode-world - because they will be
> used by Genode's forthcoming on-target depot-deployment tools (which
> should not depend on the genode-world repository).
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
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