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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:25:41 +0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] iperf: bump to version 2.0.9
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Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:09:08AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 07:38:53 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > >     [Thomas:
> > >      - change the download location to use downloads.sourceforge.net  
> > 
> > What is the advantage of downloads.sourceforge.net? Many packages still use 
> > just sourceforge.net:
> 
> Consistency amongst all packages? There are 181 packages that use
> downloads.sourceforge.net...
> 
> > $ git grep _SITE[^\.]*sourceforge -- package/ |wc -l
> > 20
> 
> ... which is a lot more than 20 packages.

OK.

> > >      - turn the patch into a Git-formatted one, since upstream uses Git as
> > >        its version control system  
> > 
> > Where have you found a link to that repo? Only after googling for "iperf2 git" 
> > I found an indication to its existence in https://github.com/daynix/iperf2.
> 
> From https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/, click on "Code".

That's the first thing I tried. Looking there again all I see is an old Svn 
repo (last update is r8 from 2014-09-14). What am I missing?

> (Yes the SourceForge UI is terrible).
> 
> > >      - as noticed by Khem Raj, a C99 compiler is needed for the bool type,
> > >        so added AC_PROG_CC_C99 to configure.ac, and consequently added
> > >        IPERF_AUTORECONF = YES.
> > >      - removed two <pkg>_CONF_ENV variables related to the bool type, they
> > >        were added by an older commit
> > >        e13ac0ec8788092c6508636da94fe0198c18dffd back when we had a
> > >        config.cache shared between packages (which is no longer the case
> > >        today)]
> > > 
> > > If you could submit the updated patch upstream, it would be good.  
> 
> Well, I was hoping you would do it :-)

It's on my TODO (AKA mail Inbox).

baruch

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