* [9fans] bzip2
@ 2012-12-29 2:44 Jeff Sickel
2012-12-29 3:01 ` erik quanstrom
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From: Jeff Sickel @ 2012-12-29 2:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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 /$objtype/lib?
-jas
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* Re: [9fans] bzip2
2012-12-29 2:44 [9fans] bzip2 Jeff Sickel
@ 2012-12-29 3:01 ` erik quanstrom
2012-12-29 10:30 ` Richard Miller
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-12-29 3:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Fri Dec 28 21:45:33 EST 2012, jas@corpus-callosum.com wrote:
> Is there any particular reason that /sys/src/cmd/bzip2/lib/mkfile
> pulls in /sys/src/cmd/mksyslib instead of /sys/src/cmd/mklib? And
> for that matter, is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when
> the bzip2 utilities are built but not copied to /$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
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* Re: [9fans] bzip2
2012-12-29 3:01 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2012-12-29 10:30 ` Richard Miller
2012-12-29 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
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From: Richard Miller @ 2012-12-29 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when
>> the bzip2 utilities are built but not copied to /$objtype/lib?
> ...
> the question i have is, why isn't bzip2 part of libflate?
/sys/src/cmd/bzip2/LICENSE might offer a clue.
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* Re: [9fans] bzip2
2012-12-29 10:30 ` Richard Miller
@ 2012-12-29 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
2012-12-29 14:31 ` Richard Miller
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-12-29 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Sat Dec 29 05:31:39 EST 2012, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> > is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when
> >> the bzip2 utilities are built but not copied to /$objtype/lib?
> > ...
> > the question i have is, why isn't bzip2 part of libflate?
>
> /sys/src/cmd/bzip2/LICENSE might offer a clue.
it appears to be a reworked four-clause bsd license. (drop
notice on binary distribution; add notice of alteration.)
wikipedia claims that bzip2 is open source.
maybe i'm missing something, but i don't see the problem
with the license. is there something specific you see?
- erik
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* Re: [9fans] bzip2
2012-12-29 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
@ 2012-12-29 14:31 ` Richard Miller
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From: Richard Miller @ 2012-12-29 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>> /sys/src/cmd/bzip2/LICENSE might offer a clue.
>
> maybe i'm missing something, but i don't see the problem
> with the license. is there something specific you see?
No, that's why I said "might". It's just that the separate
license shows that it's an import, so there might have
been an intention to keep it distinct from /$objtype/lib
which is all (well, nearly all) original Plan 9 software.
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