From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:01:07 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <8cead0dd07960d2e69abb780f8b60797@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <78CB2934-B2E3-47F2-BB8D-5D6D7BC5FEF6@corpus-callosum.com> References: <78CB2934-B2E3-47F2-BB8D-5D6D7BC5FEF6@corpus-callosum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] bzip2 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa43df66-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Dec 28 21:45:33 EST 2012, jas@corpus-callosum.com wrote: > Is there any particular reason that /sys/src/cmd/bzip2/lib/mkfile > pulls in /sys/src/cmd/mksyslib instead of /sys/src/cmd/mklib? And > for that matter, is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when > the bzip2 utilities are built but not copied to /$objtype/lib? it might be influenced by the fact that compression wants to be part of libflate (flate(2)). so it seemed like a bad idea to have two compression libraries. the question i have is, why isn't bzip2 part of libflate? - erik