see this https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4847
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:05 AM, OpenWrt <[email protected]> wrote: > #4940: Request for newer lzma package > ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- > Reporter: ya...@… | Owner: developers > Type: enhancement | Status: new > Priority: normal | Milestone: Kamikaze > Component: toolchain | Version: Trunk > Keywords: lzma | > ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- > Hi, I've just recently started playing with OpenWrt (thanks to > www.bifferos.com) and noticed that OpenWrt is using a ''really'' old > version of the lzma package. history.txt inside > http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/lzma432.tar.bz2 (referenced by > /trunk/tools/lzma/Makefile) dates from 2005-12-09! Newer versions are > available from http://tukaani.org/lzma/download and this appears to be the > 'standard source' for linux lzma packages. > > Why is this relevant? Well apart from the fact the current OpenWrt package > is 3 years old, the newer packages have much nicer gzip-like command line > syntax. And in linux kernel 2.6.30 they've integrated 'bzip2-lzma-for- > linus' which provides kernel compression in bzip and lzma formats (similar > to https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/14890), and this obviously uses the > newer-lzma syntax. > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.30-rc1 > > > So in order for OpenWrt to be able to compile linux 2.6.30, you'll either > need to update your ancient lzma package, or patch the kernel's Makefile > to use the horrible syntax of your current lzma package ;-) > > -- > Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4940> > OpenWrt <http://openwrt.org> > Opensource Wireless Router Technology > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-tickets mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-tickets > -- Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini R&D - Software Industrie Dial Face S.p.A. Via Canzo, 4 20068 Peschiera Borromeo (MI), Italy Tel.: +39 02 5167 2813 Fax: +39 02 5167 2459 web: www.idf-hit.com mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
