[9fans] bzip2

[Jeff Sickel]

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

[erik quanstrom]

Post by Jeff Sickel
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

[Richard Miller]

Post by Jeff Sickel
is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when

Post by Jeff Sickel
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.

[erik quanstrom]

Post by Richard Miller

Post by Jeff Sickel
is there a reason that libbzip2.a is created when

Post by Jeff Sickel
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

[Richard Miller]

Post by erik quanstrom

Post by Richard Miller
/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.