From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@opengear.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] elfutils: add PACKAGECONFIG for compression algorithms
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:18:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191029201821.GA26658@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015224456.22136-1-dan.callaghan@opengear.com>
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.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-15 5:48 [PATCH] elfutils: add PACKAGECONFIG for compression algorithms Dan Callaghan
2019-10-15 6:01 ` Dan Callaghan
2019-10-15 6:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Dan Callaghan
2019-10-15 6:59 ` Jacob Kroon
2019-10-15 7:21 ` Dan Callaghan
2019-10-15 7:46 ` Jacob Kroon
2019-10-15 10:55 ` Ross Burton
2019-10-15 22:46 ` Dan Callaghan
2019-10-16 10:10 ` Ross Burton
2019-10-17 0:46 ` Randy MacLeod
2019-10-16 12:14 ` Richard Purdie
2019-10-15 22:44 ` [PATCH v3] " Dan Callaghan
2019-10-22 12:53 ` Richard Purdie
2019-10-29 20:00 ` Ross Burton
2019-10-29 20:18 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2019-10-29 20:51 ` Ross Burton
2019-10-29 21:46 ` Dan Callaghan
2019-10-30 23:05 ` Ross Burton
2019-10-16 0:02 ` ✗ patchtest: failure for elfutils: add PACKAGECONFIG for compression algorithms (rev3) Patchwork
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