[ITP] cygfuse
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Mar 12 14:43:52 GMT 2022
On 10/03/2022 06:16, Mark Geisert wrote:
> This is a Cygwin version of libfuse{,3} that can be found in various
> Linux distributions. It is a couple of link libraries and additions to
> /usr/include to allow porting of FUSE apps. FUSE: File System In User
> Space. I will shortly be providing an sshfs FUSE app, to be covered by
> a separate ITP.
>
> Importantly, cygfuse depends on an underlying Windows FUSE
> implementation: WinFSP. In fact the Cygwin library code was provided by
> the author of WinFSP. I'm just providing a bona-fide Cygwin package for
> the code.
>
> WinFSP, and thus cygfuse, is made available under GPLv3 for Free/Libre
> and Open Source Software or under a commercial license.
>
> If another Windows FUSE provider shows interest in supporting Cygwin, I
> suspect it could be supported with alternatives(8).
It's not quite that straightforward as the Windows loader can only
follow symlinks to DLLs if they are
But that's not
> The initial project files for review are located at:
> http://maxrnd.com/~mark/cygwin/cygfuse/cygfuse.cygport
> http://maxrnd.com/~mark/cygwin/cygfuse/cygfuse-3.2.0-1-src.tar.xz
> http://maxrnd.com/~mark/cygwin/cygfuse/cygfuse-3.2.0-1.src.patch
>
> Thanks for reading and for any feedback you might have,
A few small comments on the cygport file
> HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse"
> #SRC_URI="http://maxrnd.com/~mark/cygwin/x86_64/release/cygfuse/cygfuse-${PV}.tar.xz"
> #NOT YET: GIT_URI="https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse.git"
> #NOT YET: GIT_TAG="v$VERSION"
> #NOT YET: inherit git
It's unclear where the upstream source tarball comes from...
> PKG_NAMES="cygfuse"
> cygfuse_CONTENTS="
> usr/bin/*
> usr/include/fuse/*
> usr/include/fuse3/*
> usr/lib/*
> usr/share/man/man1/*
> usr/share/man/man8/*
> "
>
> # take over these activities from cygport..
> _CYGPORT_RESTRICT_strip_=1
This should be written 'RESTRICT=strip', I think.
> src_compile()
> {
> # fix source tree glitch.. (maybe 'prep' stumbling or bad tarfile layout?)
> if [ -e ${S}/src ]; then
> mv ${S}/src/cygfuse ${S}
> rmdir ${S}/src
> fi
I think this can be handled with 'SRC_DIR=src/cygfuse' (and suitable
adjustment to paths throughout)
>
> # and on with the show..
> cd ${S}
> lndirs
>
> # compile emulation of Linux libfuse..
> mkdir -p ${B}/cygfuse/fuse
> cd ${B}/cygfuse/fuse
> cygmake
>
> # compile emulation of Linux libfuse3..
> mkdir -p ${B}/cygfuse/fuse3
> cd ${B}/cygfuse/fuse3
> cygmake
> }
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