[Buildroot] changing sources before patching

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 03/13/16 20:28, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Hei hei,
>
> in the fli4l [1] project, we use buildroot as build system, a little
> custom stuff on top, but basically it's buildroot. Now Carsten wanted to
> make a package for sfftools [2], especially sfftobmp3. The source is
> only available from subversion and we need to patch it. The problem we
> face is: some files we need to patch (e.g. configure.ac) have CRLF aka
> DOS line endings and patch fails then. So we want to convert the line
> endings to LF aka unix before patching. Is this possible with buildroot
> and how? Or does anyone else has a good idea for an elegant solution to
> this problem?

  As Bernt wrote, you can have a patch containing the correct CRLF.

  Alternatively, you can run a conversion in the _PRE_PATCH_HOOKS.

  Regards,
  Arnout

>
> (please keep Carsten and Christoph in Cc)
>
> Greets
> Alex
>
> [1] http://www.fli4l.de/
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sfftools/
>
>
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