Re: libarchive and zstd

On 12/4/19 1:30 PM, LM wrote:
> I was reading the Puppy Linux forum and one of the members mentioned 
> an ArchLinux post ( 
> https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-recent-libarchive/ ) 
> about switching from xz to zstd.  I checked my build of libarchive and 
> didn't notice any support for zstd.  I'm still looking through the 
> code, but it looks like the zstd library ( 
> https://github.com/facebook/zstd ) is needed in order for libarchive 
> to add in zstd support when built.  I double checked the BLFS entry ( 
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libarchive.html 
> ) and was surprised that it didn't mention zstd as an optional 
> dependency.  Anyone using zstd format?  Any thoughts on using it with 
> libarchive or are there other programs and libraries that are easier 
> to work with if using zstd compression/decompression?  Thanks.


Hi LM,

I wanted to let you know that I added the optional external dependency 
on zstd in a few minutes ago, at r22430. It'll be in the next render.

I didn't look into it much further than to check my logs to verify that 
it was looking for it though (I didn't build zstd)

- Doug

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