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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] package: add generic support for lz archives
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:34:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170216093405.24f25e54@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19a785a4-beaf-92dd-c53b-6e81dde24c7d@mind.be>

Hello,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:25:55 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > BR2_LZCAT does not specify only the path to the lzcat program, but also
> > its options. And we completely ignore those custom options if the
> > lzcat built by Buildroot is used.  
> 
>  It is possible to provide extra options, but these are completely useless.
> Well, actually, lzcat is the first one with an option that could be useful:
> --threads, to decompress over several cores. Except that --threads isn't
> implemented yet for decompression. So, although it is possible to add extra
> options in BR2_LZCAT, it just makes no sense.

My point is not whether it makes sense or not to be able to pass
options to lzip. My point is that we provide a Config.in option to
allow the user to pass additional options, but we don't actually take
into account the value of this option when we build our own host-lzip or
host-xz.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-16  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-12 20:15 [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/5] package: refactor listing of extractor dependencies Baruch Siach
2017-02-12 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] package: add generic support for lz archives Baruch Siach
2017-02-14 13:43   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2017-02-15 21:15   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-15 22:48     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-02-16  7:32       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-16  8:25         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-02-16  8:34           ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-02-16 17:24             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-02-16 17:41       ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-16 22:03         ` Peter Korsgaard
2017-02-16 22:11           ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-17  7:43             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-02-17 17:07               ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-16 22:08       ` Peter Korsgaard
2017-02-16  8:36     ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2017-02-16  8:40       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-16 10:24         ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2017-02-21 21:55   ` [Buildroot] Bug in "package: add generic support for lz archives" ? Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-22  5:32     ` Baruch Siach
2017-02-22  8:03       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-12 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 3/5] ed: use generic extract command Baruch Siach
2017-02-12 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 4/5] ddrescue: " Baruch Siach
2017-02-12 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 5/5] ocrad: " Baruch Siach
2017-02-14 13:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/5] package: refactor listing of extractor dependencies Thomas De Schampheleire
2017-02-14 21:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-02-15  7:04   ` Baruch Siach
2017-02-15 21:13 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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