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This adds a configure option --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX which defaults to empty except on Solaris it is /usr/xpg4/bin to make POSIX grep and others available. The Solaris case had been documented in INSTALL with a manual fix but it's better to do this automatically since it is needed on most Solaris systems anyway. Thanks to Daniel Richard G.
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XZ Utils Installation
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=====================
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0. Preface
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1. Supported platforms
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1.1. Compilers
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1.2. Platform-specific notes
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1.2.1. AIX
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1.2.2. IRIX
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1.2.3. MINIX 3
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1.2.4. OpenVMS
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1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
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1.2.6. Tru64
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1.2.7. Windows
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1.2.8. DOS
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1.3. Adding support for new platforms
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2. configure options
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2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
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2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec
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3. xzgrep and other scripts
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3.1. Dependencies
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3.2. PATH
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4. Troubleshooting
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4.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
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4.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
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4.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
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4.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility
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4.5. "make check" fails
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4.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz
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0. Preface
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----------
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If you aren't familiar with building packages that use GNU Autotools,
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see the file INSTALL.generic for generic instructions before reading
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further.
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If you are going to build a package for distribution, see also the
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file PACKAGERS. It contains information that should help making the
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binary packages as good as possible, but the information isn't very
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interesting to those making local builds for private use or for use
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in special situations like embedded systems.
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1. Supported platforms
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----------------------
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XZ Utils are developed on GNU/Linux, but they should work on many
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POSIX-like operating systems like *BSDs and Solaris, and even on
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a few non-POSIX operating systems.
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1.1. Compilers
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A C99 compiler is required to compile XZ Utils. If you use GCC, you
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need at least version 3.x.x. GCC version 2.xx.x doesn't support some
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C99 features used in XZ Utils source code, thus GCC 2 won't compile
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XZ Utils.
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XZ Utils takes advantage of some GNU C extensions when building
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with GCC. Because these extensions are used only when building
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with GCC, it should be possible to use any C99 compiler.
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1.2. Platform-specific notes
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1.2.1. AIX
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If you use IBM XL C compiler, pass CC=xlc_r to configure. If
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you use CC=xlc instead, you must disable threading support
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with --disable-threads (usually not recommended).
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1.2.2. IRIX
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MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using
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the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should
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work.
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A problem has been reported when using shared liblzma. Passing
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--disable-shared to configure works around this. Alternatively,
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putting "-64" to CFLAGS to build a 64-bit version might help too.
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1.2.3. MINIX 3
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The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK),
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which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils.
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MINIX 3.1.8 and older have bugs in /usr/include/stdint.h, which has
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to be patched before XZ Utils can be compiled correctly. See
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<http://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=537>.
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MINIX 3.2.0 and later use a different libc and aren't affected by
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the above bug.
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XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and
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number of CPU cores on MINIX 3.
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See section 4.4 in this file about symbol visibility warnings (you
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may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure).
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1.2.4. OpenVMS
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XZ Utils can be built for OpenVMS, but the build system files
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are not included in the XZ Utils source package. The required
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OpenVMS-specific files are maintained by Jouk Jansen and can be
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downloaded here:
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http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#xzutils
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1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
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The following linker error has been reported on some x86 systems:
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ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_GOTOFF: ...
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This can be worked around by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no
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as an argument to the configure script.
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test_scripts.sh in "make check" may fail if good enough tools are
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missing from PATH (/usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/xpg6/bin). Nowadays
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/usr/xpg4/bin is added to the script PATH by default on Solaris
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(see --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX in section 2), but old xz
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releases needed extra steps. See sections 4.5 and 3.2 for more
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information.
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1.2.6. Tru64
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If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to
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configure), you may need the workaround mention in section 4.1 in
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this file (pass also ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= to configure).
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1.2.7. Windows
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Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under the following
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environments:
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- MinGW-w64 + MSYS (32-bit and 64-bit x86): This is used
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for building the official binary packages for Windows.
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There is windows/build.bash to ease packaging XZ Utils with
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MinGW(-w64) + MSYS into a redistributable .zip or .7z file.
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See windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt for more information.
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- MinGW + MSYS (32-bit x86): I haven't recently tested this.
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- Cygwin 1.7.35 and later: NOTE that using XZ Utils >= 5.2.0
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under Cygwin older than 1.7.35 can lead to DATA LOSS! If
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you must use an old Cygwin version, stick to XZ Utils 5.0.x
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which is safe under older Cygwin versions. You can check
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the Cygwin version with the command "cygcheck -V".
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- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 update 2 or later (MSVC for short):
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See windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt for more information.
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It may be possible to build liblzma with other toolchains too, but
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that will probably require writing a separate makefile. Building
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the command line tools with non-GNU toolchains will be harder than
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building only liblzma.
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Even if liblzma is built with MinGW(-w64), the resulting DLL can
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be used by other compilers and linkers, including MSVC. See
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windows/README-Windows.txt for details.
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1.2.8. DOS
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There is an experimental Makefile in the "dos" directory to build
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XZ Utils on DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is
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needed. See dos/README for more information.
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GNU Autotools based build hasn't been tried on DOS. If you try, I
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would like to hear if it worked.
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1.3. Adding support for new platforms
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If you have written patches to make XZ Utils to work on previously
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unsupported platform, please send the patches to me! I will consider
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including them to the official version. It's nice to minimize the
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need of third-party patching.
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One exception: Don't request or send patches to change the whole
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source package to C89. I find C99 substantially nicer to write and
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maintain. However, the public library headers must be in C89 to
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avoid frustrating those who maintain programs, which are strictly
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in C89 or C++.
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2. configure options
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--------------------
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In most cases, the defaults are what you want. Many of the options
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below are useful only when building a size-optimized version of
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liblzma or command line tools.
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--enable-encoders=LIST
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--disable-encoders
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Specify a comma-separated LIST of filter encoders to
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build. See "./configure --help" for exact list of
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available filter encoders. The default is to build all
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supported encoders.
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If LIST is empty or --disable-encoders is used, no filter
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encoders will be built and also the code shared between
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encoders will be omitted.
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Disabling encoders will remove some symbols from the
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liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when it
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is known to not cause problems.
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--enable-decoders=LIST
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--disable-decoders
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This is like --enable-encoders but for decoders. The
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default is to build all supported decoders.
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--enable-match-finders=LIST
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liblzma includes two categories of match finders:
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hash chains and binary trees. Hash chains (hc3 and hc4)
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are quite fast but they don't provide the best compression
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ratio. Binary trees (bt2, bt3 and bt4) give excellent
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compression ratio, but they are slower and need more
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memory than hash chains.
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You need to enable at least one match finder to build the
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LZMA1 or LZMA2 filter encoders. Usually hash chains are
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used only in the fast mode, while binary trees are used to
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when the best compression ratio is wanted.
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The default is to build all the match finders if LZMA1
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or LZMA2 filter encoders are being built.
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--enable-checks=LIST
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liblzma support multiple integrity checks. CRC32 is
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mandatory, and cannot be omitted. See "./configure --help"
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for exact list of available integrity check types.
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liblzma and the command line tools can decompress files
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which use unsupported integrity check type, but naturally
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the file integrity cannot be verified in that case.
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Disabling integrity checks may remove some symbols from
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the liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when
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it is known to not cause problems.
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--enable-external-sha256
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Try to use SHA-256 code from the operating system libc
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or similar base system libraries. This doesn't try to
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use OpenSSL or libgcrypt or such libraries.
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The reasons to use this option:
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- It makes liblzma slightly smaller.
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- It might improve SHA-256 speed if the implementation
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in the operating is very good (but see below).
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External SHA-256 is disabled by default for two reasons:
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- On some operating systems the symbol names of the
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SHA-256 functions conflict with OpenSSL's libcrypto.
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This causes weird problems such as decompression
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errors if an application is linked against both
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liblzma and libcrypto. This problem affects at least
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FreeBSD 10 and older and MINIX 3.3.0 and older, but
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other OSes that provide a function "SHA256_Init" might
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also be affected. FreeBSD 11 has the problem fixed.
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NetBSD had the problem but it was fixed it in 2009
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already. OpenBSD uses "SHA256Init" and thus never had
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a conflict with libcrypto.
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- The SHA-256 code in liblzma is faster than the SHA-256
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code provided by some operating systems. If you are
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curious, build two copies of xz (internal and external
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SHA-256) and compare the decompression (xz --test)
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times:
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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1024 \
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| xz -v -0 -Csha256 > foo.xz
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time xz --test foo.xz
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--disable-xz
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--disable-xzdec
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--disable-lzmadec
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--disable-lzmainfo
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Don't build and install the command line tool mentioned
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in the option name.
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NOTE: Disabling xz will skip some tests in "make check".
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NOTE: If xzdec is disabled and lzmadec is left enabled,
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a dangling man page symlink lzmadec.1 -> xzdec.1 is
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created.
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--disable-lzma-links
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Don't create symlinks for LZMA Utils compatibility.
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This includes lzma, unlzma, and lzcat. If scripts are
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installed, also lzdiff, lzcmp, lzgrep, lzegrep, lzfgrep,
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lzmore, and lzless will be omitted if this option is used.
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--disable-scripts
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Don't install the scripts xzdiff, xzgrep, xzmore, xzless,
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and their symlinks.
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--disable-doc
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Don't install the documentation files to $docdir
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(often /usr/doc/xz or /usr/local/doc/xz). Man pages
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will still be installed. The $docdir can be changed
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with --docdir=DIR.
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--disable-assembler
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liblzma includes some assembler optimizations. Currently
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there is only assembler code for CRC32 and CRC64 for
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32-bit x86.
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All the assembler code in liblzma is position-independent
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code, which is suitable for use in shared libraries and
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position-independent executables. So far only i386
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instructions are used, but the code is optimized for i686
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class CPUs. If you are compiling liblzma exclusively for
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pre-i686 systems, you may want to disable the assembler
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code.
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--enable-unaligned-access
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Allow liblzma to use unaligned memory access for 16-bit
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and 32-bit loads and stores. This should be enabled only
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when the hardware supports this, i.e. when unaligned
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access is fast. Some operating system kernels emulate
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unaligned access, which is extremely slow. This option
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shouldn't be used on systems that rely on such emulation.
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Unaligned access is enabled by default on x86, x86-64,
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and big endian PowerPC.
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--enable-small
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Reduce the size of liblzma by selecting smaller but
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semantically equivalent version of some functions, and
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omit precomputed lookup tables. This option tends to
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make liblzma slightly slower.
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Note that while omitting the precomputed tables makes
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liblzma smaller on disk, the tables are still needed at
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run time, and need to be computed at startup. This also
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means that the RAM holding the tables won't be shared
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between applications linked against shared liblzma.
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This option doesn't modify CFLAGS to tell the compiler
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to optimize for size. You need to add -Os or equivalent
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flag(s) to CFLAGS manually.
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--enable-assume-ram=SIZE
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On the most common operating systems, XZ Utils is able to
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detect the amount of physical memory on the system. This
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information is used by the options --memlimit-compress,
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--memlimit-decompress, and --memlimit when setting the
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limit to a percentage of total RAM.
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On some systems, there is no code to detect the amount of
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RAM though. Using --enable-assume-ram one can set how much
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memory to assume on these systems. SIZE is given as MiB.
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The default is 128 MiB.
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Feel free to send patches to add support for detecting
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the amount of RAM on the operating system you use. See
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src/common/tuklib_physmem.c for details.
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--enable-threads=METHOD
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Threading support is enabled by default so normally there
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is no need to specify this option.
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Supported values for METHOD:
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yes Autodetect the threading method. If none
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is found, configure will give an error.
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posix Use POSIX pthreads. This is the default
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except on Windows outside Cygwin.
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win95 Use Windows 95 compatible threads. This
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is compatible with Windows XP and later
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too. This is the default for 32-bit x86
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Windows builds. The `win95' threading is
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incompatible with --enable-small.
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vista Use Windows Vista compatible threads. The
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resulting binaries won't run on Windows XP
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or older. This is the default for Windows
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excluding 32-bit x86 builds (that is, on
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x86-64 the default is `vista').
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no Disable threading support. This is the
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same as using --disable-threads.
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NOTE: If combined with --enable-small, the
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resulting liblzma won't be thread safe,
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that is, if a multi-threaded application
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calls any liblzma functions from more than
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one thread, something bad may happen.
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--enable-sandbox=METHOD
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This feature is EXPERIMENTAL in the XZ Utils 5.2.x and
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disabled by default. If you test this, look especially
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if message translations and locale-specific decimal and
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thousand separators (e.g. xz --list foo.xz) work the
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same way as they do without sandboxing.
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There is limited sandboxing support in the xz tool. If
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built with sandbox support, it's used automatically when
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(de)compressing exactly one file to standard output and
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the options --files or --files0 weren't used. This is a
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common use case, for example, (de)compressing .tar.xz
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files via GNU tar. The sandbox is also used for
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single-file `xz --test' or `xz --list'.
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Supported METHODs:
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auto Look for a supported sandboxing method
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and use it if found. If no method is
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found, then sandboxing isn't used.
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no Disable sandboxing support.
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capsicum
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Use Capsicum (FreeBSD >= 10) for
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sandboxing. If no Capsicum support
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is found, configure will give an error.
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--enable-symbol-versions
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Use symbol versioning for liblzma. This is enabled by
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default on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and
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FreeBSD.
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--enable-debug
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This enables the assert() macro and possibly some other
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run-time consistency checks. It makes the code slower, so
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you normally don't want to have this enabled.
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--enable-werror
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If building with GCC, make all compiler warnings an error,
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that abort the compilation. This may help catching bugs,
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and should work on most systems. This has no effect on the
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resulting binaries.
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--enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX
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If PREFIX isn't empty, PATH=PREFIX:$PATH will be set in
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the beginning of the scripts (xzgrep and others).
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The default is empty except on Solaris the default is
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/usr/xpg4/bin.
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This can be useful if the default PATH doesn't contain
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modern POSIX tools (as can be the case on Solaris) or if
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one wants to ensure that the correct xz binary is in the
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PATH for the scripts. Note that the latter use can break
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"make check" if the prefixed PATH causes a wrong xz binary
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(other than the one that was just built) to be used.
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Older xz releases support a different method for setting
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the PATH for the scripts. It is described in section 3.2
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and is supported in this xz version too.
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2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
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On 32-bit x86, linking against static liblzma can give a minor
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speed improvement. Static libraries on x86 are usually compiled as
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position-dependent code (non-PIC) and shared libraries are built as
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position-independent code (PIC). PIC wastes one register, which can
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make the code slightly slower compared to a non-PIC version. (Note
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that this doesn't apply to x86-64.)
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If you want to link xz against static liblzma, the simplest way
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is to pass --disable-shared to configure. If you want also shared
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liblzma, run configure again and run "make install" only for
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src/liblzma.
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2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec
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xzdec and lzmadec are intended to be relatively small instead of
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optimizing for the best speed. Thus, it is a good idea to build
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xzdec and lzmadec separately:
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- To link the tools against static liblzma, pass --disable-shared
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to configure.
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- To select somewhat size-optimized variant of some things in
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liblzma, pass --enable-small to configure.
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- Tell the compiler to optimize for size instead of speed.
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E.g. with GCC, put -Os into CFLAGS.
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- xzdec and lzmadec will never use multithreading capabilities of
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liblzma. You can avoid dependency on libpthread by passing
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--disable-threads to configure.
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- There are and will be no translated messages for xzdec and
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lzmadec, so it is fine to pass also --disable-nls to configure.
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- Only decoder code is needed, so you can speed up the build
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slightly by passing --disable-encoders to configure. This
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shouldn't affect the final size of the executables though,
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because the linker is able to omit the encoder code anyway.
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If you have no use for xzdec or lzmadec, you can disable them with
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--disable-xzdec and --disable-lzmadec.
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3. xzgrep and other scripts
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---------------------------
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3.1. Dependencies
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POSIX shell (sh) and bunch of other standard POSIX tools are required
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to run the scripts. The configure script tries to find a POSIX
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compliant sh, but if it fails, you can force the shell by passing
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gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
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script.
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xzdiff (xzcmp/lzdiff/lzcmp) may use mktemp if it is available. As
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a fallback xzdiff will use mkdir to securely create a temporary
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directory. Having mktemp available is still recommended since the
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mkdir fallback method isn't as robust as mktemp is. The original
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mktemp can be found from <http://www.mktemp.org/>. On GNU, most will
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use the mktemp program from GNU coreutils instead of the original
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implementation. Both mktemp versions are fine.
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In addition to using xz to decompress .xz files, xzgrep and xzdiff
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use gzip, bzip2, and lzop to support .gz, bz2, and .lzo files.
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3.2. PATH
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The method described below is supported by older xz releases.
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It is supported by the current version too, but the newer
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--enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX described in section 2 may be
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more convenient.
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The scripts assume that the required tools (standard POSIX utilities,
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mktemp, and xz) are in PATH; the scripts don't set the PATH themselves
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(except as described for --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX). Some
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people like this while some think this is a bug. Those in the latter
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group can easily patch the scripts before running the configure script
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by taking advantage of a placeholder line in the scripts.
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For example, to make the scripts prefix /usr/bin:/bin to PATH:
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perl -pi -e 's|^#SET_PATH.*$|PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:\$PATH|' \
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src/scripts/xz*.in
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4. Troubleshooting
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------------------
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4.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
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You need a C99 compiler to build XZ Utils. If the configure script
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|
cannot find a C99 compiler and you think you have such a compiler
|
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installed, set the compiler command by passing CC=/path/to/c99 as
|
|
an argument to the configure script.
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If you get this error even when you think your compiler supports C99,
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you can override the test by passing ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as an argument
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to the configure script. The test for C99 compiler is not perfect (and
|
|
it is not as easy to make it perfect as it sounds), so sometimes this
|
|
may be needed. You will get a compile error if your compiler doesn't
|
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support enough C99.
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4.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
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xzgrep and other scripts need a shell that (roughly) conforms
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|
to POSIX. The configure script tries to find such a shell. If
|
|
it fails, you can force the shell to be used by passing
|
|
gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
|
|
script. Alternatively you can omit the installation of scripts and
|
|
this error by passing --disable-scripts to configure.
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4.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
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|
|
The easy fix is to pass --disable-assembler to the configure script.
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|
|
|
The configure script determines if assembler code can be used by
|
|
looking at the configure triplet; there is currently no check if
|
|
the assembler code can actually actually be built. The x86 assembler
|
|
code should work on x86 GNU/Linux, *BSDs, Solaris, Darwin, MinGW,
|
|
Cygwin, and DJGPP. On other x86 systems, there may be problems and
|
|
the assembler code may need to be disabled with the configure option.
|
|
|
|
If you get this error when building for x86-64, you have specified or
|
|
the configure script has misguessed your architecture. Pass the
|
|
correct configure triplet using the --build=CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM option
|
|
(see INSTALL.generic).
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|
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4.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility
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|
|
|
On some systems where symbol visibility isn't supported, GCC may
|
|
still accept the visibility options and attributes, which will make
|
|
configure think that visibility is supported. This will result in
|
|
many compiler warnings. You can avoid the warnings by forcing the
|
|
visibility support off by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no as an
|
|
argument to the configure script. This has no effect on the
|
|
resulting binaries, but fewer warnings looks nicer and may allow
|
|
using --enable-werror.
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|
|
|
|
|
4.5. "make check" fails
|
|
|
|
If the other tests pass but test_scripts.sh fails, then the problem
|
|
is in the scripts in src/scripts. Comparing the contents of
|
|
tests/xzgrep_test_output to tests/xzgrep_expected_output might
|
|
give a good idea about problems in xzgrep. One possibility is that
|
|
some tools are missing from the current PATH or the tools lack
|
|
support for some POSIX features. This can happen at least on
|
|
Solaris where the tools in /bin may be ancient but good enough
|
|
tools are available in /usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/xpg6/bin. For possible
|
|
fixes, see --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX in section 2 and the
|
|
older alternative method described in section 3.2 of this file.
|
|
|
|
If tests other than test_scripts.sh fail, a likely reason is that
|
|
libtool links the test programs against an installed version of
|
|
liblzma instead of the version that was just built. This is
|
|
obviously a bug which seems to happen on some platforms.
|
|
A workaround is to uninstall the old liblzma versions first.
|
|
|
|
If the problem isn't any of those described above, then it's likely
|
|
a bug in XZ Utils or in the compiler. See the platform-specific
|
|
notes in this file for possible known problems. Please report
|
|
a bug if you cannot solve the problem. See README for contact
|
|
information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
4.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz
|
|
|
|
If you installed the package with "make install" and get an error
|
|
about liblzma.so (or a similarly named file) being missing, try
|
|
running "ldconfig" to update the run-time linker cache (if your
|
|
operating system has such a command).
|
|
|