From 1f7c8ec7e27f54ace74c77fd517eb0aa33d43d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aman Verma <amanraoverma@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:43:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] mdist: Ensure correct format for sha256sum.

We conform to the format described at
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/md5sum-invocation.html>.
and compatible with busybox and Perl's shasum utility.
---
 mesonbuild/mdist.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mesonbuild/mdist.py b/mesonbuild/mdist.py
index 6985ca950..1e80a6222 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mdist.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mdist.py
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ def create_hash(fname):
     m = hashlib.sha256()
     m.update(open(fname, 'rb').read())
     with open(hashname, 'w') as f:
-        f.write('{} {}\n'.format(m.hexdigest(), os.path.basename(fname)))
+        # A space and an asterisk because that is the format defined by GNU coreutils
+        # and accepted by busybox and the Perl shasum tool.
+        f.write('{} *{}\n'.format(m.hexdigest(), os.path.basename(fname)))
     print(os.path.relpath(fname), m.hexdigest())