brik

[Fred Fish]

> the only place it can be found is on uunet
> in one of the comp.sources archives, divided into about three shar files.

I've been using it for years in my CD-ROM distributions to create CRC
lists on the CD-ROM.  See:

  [fnf@toadfish ftp]$ ls -l pub/geekgadgets/current/*/brik*  
  -r--r--r--   1 200      201          8557 Jul 28 16:09 pub/geekgadgets/current/amiga-bin/brik-2.0-bin.lha
  -r--r--r--   1 200      201           808 Jul 28 16:09 pub/geekgadgets/current/amiga-bin/brik-2.0-bin.lha.pi
  -r--r--r--   1 200      201         58501 Jul 28 16:09 pub/geekgadgets/current/amiga-src/brik-2.0-src.tgz
  -r--r--r--   1 200      201           808 Jul 28 16:09 pub/geekgadgets/current/amiga-src/brik-2.0-src.tgz.pi
  [fnf@toadfish ftp]$ 

> Warning, it predates autoconf.  But it's fairly simple to build.
> If some autoconf whiz wants to package it up like a GNU tool, that would
> be nice, though there's the matter of copyright assignment (though since
> Rahul works for himself I think he's have no problem giving one if asked).

The version in GeekGadgets has had a quick-and-dirty autoconf port done.
The configure.in file is:

  dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
  dnl
  AC_INIT(brik.c)

  AC_PROG_INSTALL
  AC_PROG_CC

  AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)

This version currently configures and builds on linux, BeOS, and
AmigaOS (and probably others).  There have been a couple of minor
changes done to it, relative to the comp.sources version, one of which
has been to not fall over on filenames with embedded blanks.

-Fred