Re: libxkbcommon-1.8.0 Note - BLFS r12.2-1385

On 2/22/25 6:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 2/22/25 6:14 PM, Joe Locash ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
>>
>> On 2/22/25 6:53 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2/22/25 5:38 PM, rhubarbpieguy ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
>>> List) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The libxkbcommon documentation has the following note:
>>>>
>>>>       "The tarball libxkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz will extract to the directory 
>>>> libxkbcommon-xkbcomm-1.8.0.tar.gz."
>>>>
>>>> Is that correct?  It appears the libxkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz link downloads 
>>>> libxkbcommon-xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz which extracts to libxkbcommon-xkbcommon-1.8.0.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is correct.  The link on the github web page does download to 
>>> libxkbcommon- xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz, but the link in blfs downloads to the 
>>> simpler libxkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz.
>>
>> I think the confusion here is because if you click the download link for it in a 
>> browser it saves it as libxkbcommon-xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz but using wget with the 
>> same location doesn't.
> 
> If you are reading the BLFS book, just clicking on the link should work.  But you are 
> right. It does download a different filename from the link.  I'll see if I can fix it.

I could not figure out how github wanted to download as a different file name, so I 
just made the url name, the download name, and the extracted directory name all the 
same: libxkbcommon-xkbcommon

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/archive/xkbcommon-1.8.0/libxkbcommon-xkbcommon-1.8.0.tar.gz

   -- Bruce

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