Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Jim Meyering wrote:
> If you can demonstrate a portability problem, please provide details.
> > From what I've heard (distributing xz-only compressed tarballs of
> coreutils, grep, diffutils, parted, etc.) there have been no
> problems building xz from source on the few systems for which it is not
> yet available pre-packaged.

It does not successfully build using GCC on my Solaris 10 system, and 
not even with the workaround described in the INSTALL file.

Regardless, building xz has certain documented requirements of its 
build environment (e.g. C'99 compiler and system headers) which can 
not be satisfied by all systems.

> I've heard that an embedded system user had trouble using xz
> to decompress because their system had only 32MB of RAM and no swap.
> However, even in that extreme case I think they found a work-around.

> From what I have heard, even hundreds of MB of RAM may not be 
sufficient.

Bob
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