On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:59:32PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
> I've been seeing some references to zstd lately.  AFAIK, the only use of it
> right now in LFS/BLFS is for some tests, but I think it will become more
> common in the future.
> 
> I downloaded the tarball from https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases and
> the build is pretty easy.  Actually they support make, meson, and cmake.
> 
> I was able to build with
> 
> make
> make prefix=/usr install
> 
> Build size 17 MB
> Install size 3.1 MB
> Time was about 0.5 SBU
> 
> We might want to make some changes to install in /bin and /lib instead of
> /usr and to remove or suppress the static library, but I haven't looked at
> that yet.
> 
> Should we add this now or wait a while until more packages start using it?
> 
>   -- Bruce

Using this lists suggests you are thinking of adding it to LFS
rather than to BLFS.  What is the current justfication for that ?

I'm sure your mention of /bin and /lib implies some reason for
adding it, but from the little I know at the moment I've flagged
it under 'might be needed in BLFS one day'.

ĸen
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