[Clfs-dev] XZ Utils in chapter 6

[Joe Ciccone]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Why ?
>
> I can see that in (at least) x86_64 and x86_64-64 this is included in a
> page-by-page path through chapter 6.  In ppc64, it isn't.  So, I built
> a chroot ppc64 without it last month.  Works fine.
>   
Ken? It's There, Unless I'm completely missing something:
http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/ppc64/temp-system/xz.html
> The obvious fix would be to correct the links in ppc64 to match the
> other books, but is there really a reason why we need this before we
> build the final system ?  Yes, I understand the "compresses better"
> idea (even though my own tests haven't identified any use case where
> the difference is significant), but unless it is available on the host it
> can't be used for any packages which appear before chapter 9.
>
>   
Some gnu packages started distributing in lzma only. I forget which ones
off the top of my head. But It's there because we download autoconf and
libtool in a .tar.lzma.
> Please note that I haven't moved to git yet, so I won't be altering
> this.  Feel free to fix it if there is consensus.
>
>   
Don't know what to fix.

Let me know if I missed something.

Joe