On 1/8/20 3:59 PM, 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
Good evening,
I think add zstd is a great idea, and should prove beneficial further
down the line as more packages begin to adopt it. It's compression
algorithm is really good according to the benchmarks I've seen.
My suggestion is to make changes to install them in /bin and /lib, and
to remove the installation of the static library.
I suggest using Autotools for this one rather than CMake or Meson. CMake
can use zstd for testing, so we'd introduce a potential circular
dependency there.
- Doug
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