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Install Bzip2 by running the following commands:
make CC="gcc -static" && make PREFIX=$LFS/usr install && cd $LFS/usr/bin && mv bzcat bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover $LFS/bin
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 archive with tar xvfj file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when the Tar package is installed.
make CC="gcc -static": This is the method we use to tell gcc that we want bzip2 to be linked statically.
The Bzip2 packages contains the bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat and bzip2recover programs.
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2.
bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output.
bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.
Bzip2-1.0.1 needs the following to be installed:
sh from the bash package
ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
gcc from the gcc package
make from the make package