[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/libedit: switch to alternate URL for proper packaging

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2013-07-29 21:14 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[--SNIP--]
> > +# Note: libbsd required for *vis functions, but works only with a toolchain
> > +# with __progname; otherwise, some features are disabled, as if libbsd was
> > +# missing entirely.
> > +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBBSD),y)
> > +LIBEDIT_DEPENDENCIES   += libbsd
> > +endif
> 
> What does libbsd really provide us? What are these vis functions?

libbsd provides functions commonly found on *BSD systems, but not
commnly available on non *BSD systems such as Linux. See its homepage:
    http://libbsd.freedesktop.org/

The *vis familly of functions provide a mean to "visually encode
characters" (from the man page). From what I see, it is a way to encode
(wide? unicode?) characters into a set of printable chars from the ASCII
set. Ie. all that is not in [[:print:]] is encoded. The encoding is
reversible.

libbsd+libedit are part of the stack I've been building up for more than
a year now, to build a complete qemu+libvirt based "VM server" (I have
to refresh the patchset (yet once more) before resubmitting to the list).
I would really like these two libs to stay in for this reason.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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