[OE-core] [PATCH] pixz: Add 1.0.6

[Paul Eggleton]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:36:36 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:26:39 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Fri, 08 Jan 2016 18:22:49 Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > xz gives better compression results than bzip/gz but is often slower.
> > > Using parallel compression mitigates this somewhat and is particularly
> > > useful for the SDK.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb
> > > b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..e6e4ac2
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-support/pixz/pixz_1.0.6.bb
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> > > +SUMMARY = "Parallel, indexed xz compressor"
> > > +
> > > +DEPENDS = "xz libarchive"
> > > +
> > > +SRC_URI =
> > > "https://github.com/vasi/pixz/releases/download/v${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.
> > > xz
> > > "
> > 
> > Can we rely on this never changing? I thought we'd experienced problems
> > with github's release tarballs being generated on the fly in the past...
> Another thing, this seems to fail to build without asciidoc:
> 
> ------------ snip ------------
> checking for src/pixz.1... no
> checking for a2x... no
> configure: error: AsciiDoc not found, not able to generate the man page.
> ------------ snip ------------
> 
> This is also related to not supporting B != S, since src/pixz.1 does exist,
> just in S and not B. If you inherit autotools-brokensep instead of autotools
> it works.

Possibly a bit obvious, but even inheriting autotools-brokensep isn't enough, 
because if it runs "make clean" on re-executing do_configure, src/pixz.1 gets 
deleted and you get the same issue.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre