The Bzip2 package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files. On text files they achieve a much better compression than the traditional gzip.
Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU Required disk space: 2.5 MB
Bzip2 installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.
The Bzip2 package doesn't contain a configure script. Compile and install it with a straightforward:
make PREFIX=/tools install
The details on this package are found in the section called “Contents of Bzip2”.