Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932139AbWEWNhg (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:37:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932225AbWEWNhg (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:37:36 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:7356 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932139AbWEWNhf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 09:37:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:37:16 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Alistair John Strachan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: <44722756.5090902@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <200605222015.01980.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <44722756.5090902@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 18 >> Seriously, though, if I understand gzip correctly, it uses deflate/zlib >> internally. Why, in that case, does /bin/gzip not (dynamically) link >> against libz? If a first step was fixing that, a second could be linking >> dynamically against libbz2 and 'liblzma', and making it all compile-time >> configurable. > > Because gzip predates zlib... > So we are carrying cruft around. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/