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 -- The right of the people to keep and arm Bears, shall not be infringed. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
