[BusyBox] Re: [uClibc] LZMA (Patches for busybox and buildroot)

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Fri May 6 23:40:42 UTC 2005


On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:30:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 06 May 2005 02:52 am, Thomas Lundquist wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:45:12PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:43 am, Thomas Lundquist wrote:
> > > > The lzma compressor(s) need C++ but the decompressor (lzmacat) uses a C
> > > > only library.
> > >
> > > Nothing in busybox currently needs c++.
> >
> > well, the lzmacat, which is the decompressor, does not need C++. it's
> > for compressing you need C++.
> >
> > > > This requires the lzma sdk version 4.06 to compile.
> > >
> > > Currently, the only thing in busybox that requires an external SDK to
> > > compile is the new ext2 tools, which A) were not in 1.00, and B) are
> > > being fixed to be self-contained.
> >
> > the busybox applet, lzmacat, is self contained.
> 
> So you're only suggesting merging the decompressor, not the compressor, in 
> busybox?
> 
> I think I'll wait and see what Manuel's patch looks like...

Erik and I both looked at the stuff I had done last night.  I had done
pretty much a straight translation from c++ to c and had combined all
the decompressor code into one file.  Still needs a bit of work.  The
compressor still needs a lot of work.

Manuel



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