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From:
Douglas Silva <doug.hs@proton.me>
Subject:
Re: New port: lyrebird, the obfourscator
To:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc:
"ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:35:59 +0000

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Just tested that MODGO_LDFLAGS, but it's still returning "lyrebird devel".




On Monday, December 22nd, 2025 at 15:05, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

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> On 2025/12/22 17:21, Caspar Schutijser wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 01:29:20AM +0000, Douglas Silva wrote:
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> > > Lyrebird is a fork of obfs4proxy maintained by the Tor Project. It's an obfuscator commonly used for deploying obfs4 Tor bridges. It's written in Go.
> > > 
> > > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/lyrebird
> > > 
> > > This is my first attempt to contribute to the ports tree, so please test it and send me your feedback.
> > > 
> > > I used the obfs4proxy port as a starting point. It hasn't seen a release since 2022, which is around the time the fork was made — it may be considered unmaintained.
> > > 
> > > The old project is hosted here: https://gitlab.com/yawning/obfs4
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> > Thanks for creating a Lyrebird port. That has been on my to do list
> > for a while.
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> > I'm wondering if this can be fixed easily:
> > $ lyrebird -version
> > lyrebird devel
> > It would be better if it reported the actual version number.
> > 
> > Upstream's Makefile
> > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/lyrebird/-/blob/main/Makefile?ref_type=heads
> > shows how they fix it. I don't have time to look into integrating that
> > into your port right now. If you want you can have a look, or I'll have
> > a look another time.
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> 
> this ought to (untested)
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> MODGO_LDFLAGS = -X 'main.lyrebirdVersion=${PKGNAME:S/lyrebird-//}'
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> > I plan to do more testing when I have more time (probably in a few days)
> > and then I also want to import it with sthen@'s OK.
> > 
> > Caspar