6.41. Installing Bzip2-1.0.2

Estimated build time:           0.09 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

6.41.1. Installation of Bzip2

Install Bzip2 by running the following commands:

make -f Makefile-libbz2_so &&
make &&
make install &&
cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 &&
ln -s libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so &&
cp -a libbz2.so* /lib &&
rm /lib/libbz2.so &&
ln -s ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so &&
rm /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} &&
mv /usr/bin/{bzip2recover,bzless,bzmore} /bin &&
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bunzip2 &&
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bzcat

Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system, it's worth mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a plain tar, you have to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz | tar -xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and bunzip2 with tar. This patch provides the -j option so you can unpack a bzip2'ed archive with tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when the Tar package is re-installed.

6.41.2. Command explanations

make -f Makefile-libbz2_so: This will cause bzip2 to be built using a different Makefile file, in this case the Makefile-libbz2_so file, which creates a dynamic libbz2.so library and links the bzip2 utilities against it.

6.41.3. Contents of Bzip2

Last checked against version 1.0.2

6.41.4. Bzip2 Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.0.1.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Fileutils: cp, ln, rm
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make