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+SOURCES/libfastjson-0.99.9.tar.gz
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+44f278fb75f91b77f79f61bfa9988eee27e24088 SOURCES/libfastjson-0.99.9.tar.gz
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+Name:		libfastjson
+Version:	0.99.9
+Release:	1%{?dist}
+Summary:	A JSON implementation in C
+License:	MIT
+URL:		https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson
+Source0:	http://download.rsyslog.com/libfastjson/libfastjson-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires: autoconf automake libtool
+
+%description
+LIBFASTJSON implements a reference counting object
+model that allows you to easily construct JSON
+objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings
+and parse JSON formatted strings back into the
+C representation of JSON objects.
+
+%package	devel
+Summary:	Development files for libfastjson
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+Requires:	%{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description	devel
+This package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use libfastjson.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+for doc in ChangeLog; do
+ iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 $doc > $doc.new &&
+ touch -r $doc $doc.new &&
+ mv $doc.new $doc
+done
+
+%build
+autoreconf -iv
+export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" # temporary workaround for EPEL5, fixed upstream
+%configure --enable-shared --disable-static
+
+%install
+make V=1 DESTDIR=%{buildroot} install
+find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -delete -print
+
+%check
+make V=1 check
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%{!?_licensedir:%global license %%doc}
+%license COPYING
+%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog README.html
+%{_libdir}/libfastjson.so.*
+
+%files devel
+%{_includedir}/libfastjson
+%{_libdir}/libfastjson.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libfastjson.pc
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Apr 22 2021 Attila Lakatos <alakatos@redhat.com> - 0.99.9-1
+- rebase to v0.99.9
+Resolves: rhbz#1936807
+
+* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.99.8-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jan 11 2018 Jiri Vymazal <jvymazal@redhat.com> - 0.99.8-1
+- rebase to v0.99.8
+
+* Mon Oct 23 2017 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.99.7-1
+- rebase to v0.99.7
+
+* Tue Aug 15 2017 Marek Tamaskovic <mtamasko@redhat.com> - 0.99.6-1
+- rebase to v0.99.6
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.99.5-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.99.5-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon May 22 2017 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.99.5-1
+- added autoreconf
+- rebase to v0.99.5
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.99.4-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Sep 27 2016 Radovan Sroka <rsroka@redhat.com> - 0.99.4-1
+- Package created