Re: [PATCH 07/24] gnu: compression: Add snappy.

[Alex Kost]

David Craven (2016-08-17 11:30 +0300) wrote:

>> Also there is a real release that shouldn't require autoreconf phase:
>> <https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/1.1.3/snappy-1.1.3.tar.gz>
>> Did you try using it?
>
> Just did, and requires running autoreconf too...

I don't believe you :-)

I've just tried, and autoreconf is not needed for this tarball:

(define-public snappy
  (package
    (name "snappy")
    (version "1.1.3")
    (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append
                    "https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/";
                    version "/" name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
                "1wzf8yif5ym2gj52db6v5m1pxnmn258i38x7llk9x346y2nq47ig"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (home-page "https://github.com/google/snappy";)
    (synopsis "Fast compressor/decompressor")
    (description "Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not
aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression 
library;
instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance,
compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster
for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to
100% bigger.")
    (license license:asl2.0)))

-- 
Alex