cvs commit: src/contrib/bzip2 bzlib.c src/lib/libstand Makefile

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Tue May 31 13:55:14 PDT 2005


David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:56:38PM +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>>sobomax     2005-05-29 21:56:38 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    contrib/bzip2        bzlib.c 
>>    lib/libstand         Makefile 
>>  Log:
>>  Make bzip2 support working again after bzip2 upgrade. This time commit
>>  BZ_NO_COMPRESS support to the bzip2 sources directly (yes, this takes file
>>  off the vendor branch, but looks like bzip2 maintainer doesn't care), so that
>>  it will not be removed when the next upgrade is performed. Also, add a short
>>  note on how to test bzip2 support.
>>  
>>  Pointy hat to:  obrien
>>  
>>  Correct comment (libz -> libbz2) and remove useless full path to zutil.h
>>  while I am here.
> 
> 
> DON'T remove bzip2 files from the vendor branch again again with
> disucssing it!

Hmm, weren't you been advocating for using our SCM for handling those 
changes? I can even dig out respective messages of yours out of my 
inbox. Maybe they were posted by some troll not real obrien.

> What is is the problem you are trying to solve?  Why is BZ_NO_COMPRESS
> needed?  There are better ways of handling this.

Really? Please tell me, since I have not been able to find any other way 
around it. Our linker is a pretty stupid one - it insists that it needs 
all symbols resolved, even those not used by any "real code".

-Maxim


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