On Friday, April 4, 2014, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:26, Eric A. Borisch > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > I have a (manually installed, linked against system libs) pbzip2 in > /usr/local/bin/pbzip2. I configure macports (on install) with './configure > BZIP2=/usr/local/bin/pbzip2' > > This is precisely what I was interested in. Have you been using this > configuration for long? Any problems? I set up something similar, but with > pbzip2 installed from MacPorts, and I did have pbzip2 crash once. I'll have > to try it for longer and see how reliable it is. I've had no issues with this config for years. Obviously the problem with using pbzip2 from MacPorts is that everything > would break if pbzip2 were ever deactivated, including if it were ever > upgraded. > > Since the MacPorts build system now accommodates adding third-party > software into the build, if pbzip2 works reliably, it might be nice to > include it with MacPorts and use it at least for compression and > decompression of the archives, if not also for bzip2 distfiles and > patchfiles. > I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with bzip2. - Eric
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