On 29/10/2019 20:18, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:44:56AM +1000, Dan Callaghan wrote:
Elfutils has optional support for bzip2 and xz (lzma). It uses
this for decompressing embedded ELF sections like the .gnu_debugdata
section for "mini debuginfo":

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/MiniDebugInfo.html
...
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "bzip2"
+PACKAGECONFIG[bzip2] = "--with-bzlib,--without-bzlib,${DEPENDS_BZIP2}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[xz] = "--with-lzma,--without-lzma,xz"
...

Is any tooling actually doing this compression by default?

It is a bit surprising that this has the mostly-obsolete bzip2 enabled
by default but not the more common (and better compressing) xz.

Exactly.

Ross
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