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- XZ Utils Installation
- =====================
- 0. Preface
- 1. Supported platforms
- 1.1. Compilers
- 1.2. Platform-specific notes
- 1.2.1. AIX
- 1.2.2. IRIX
- 1.2.3. MINIX 3
- 1.2.4. OpenVMS
- 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
- 1.2.6. Tru64
- 1.2.7. Windows
- 1.2.8. DOS
- 1.2.9. z/OS
- 1.3. Adding support for new platforms
- 2. configure options
- 2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
- 2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec
- 3. xzgrep and other scripts
- 3.1. Dependencies
- 3.2. PATH
- 4. Tests
- 4.1 Testing in parallel
- 4.2 Cross compiling
- 5. Troubleshooting
- 5.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
- 5.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
- 5.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
- 5.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility
- 5.5. "make check" fails
- 5.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz
- 0. Preface
- ----------
- If you aren't familiar with building packages that use GNU Autotools,
- see the file INSTALL.generic for generic instructions before reading
- further.
- If you are going to build a package for distribution, see also the
- file PACKAGERS. It contains information that should help making the
- binary packages as good as possible, but the information isn't very
- interesting to those making local builds for private use or for use
- in special situations like embedded systems.
- 1. Supported platforms
- ----------------------
- XZ Utils are developed on GNU/Linux, but they should work on many
- POSIX-like operating systems like *BSDs and Solaris, and even on
- a few non-POSIX operating systems.
- 1.1. Compilers
- A C99 compiler is required to compile XZ Utils. If you use GCC, you
- need at least version 3.x.x. GCC version 2.xx.x doesn't support some
- C99 features used in XZ Utils source code, thus GCC 2 won't compile
- XZ Utils.
- XZ Utils takes advantage of some GNU C extensions when building
- with GCC. Because these extensions are used only when building
- with GCC, it should be possible to use any C99 compiler.
- 1.2. Platform-specific notes
- 1.2.1. AIX
- If you use IBM XL C compiler, pass CC=xlc_r to configure. If
- you use CC=xlc instead, you must disable threading support
- with --disable-threads (usually not recommended).
- 1.2.2. IRIX
- MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using
- the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should
- work.
- A problem has been reported when using shared liblzma. Passing
- --disable-shared to configure works around this. Alternatively,
- putting "-64" to CFLAGS to build a 64-bit version might help too.
- 1.2.3. MINIX 3
- The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK),
- which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils.
- MINIX 3.1.8 and older have bugs in /usr/include/stdint.h, which has
- to be patched before XZ Utils can be compiled correctly. See
- <http://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=537>.
- MINIX 3.2.0 and later use a different libc and aren't affected by
- the above bug.
- XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and
- number of CPU cores on MINIX 3.
- See section 5.4 in this file about symbol visibility warnings (you
- may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure).
- 1.2.4. OpenVMS
- XZ Utils can be built for OpenVMS, but the build system files
- are not included in the XZ Utils source package. The required
- OpenVMS-specific files are maintained by Jouk Jansen and can be
- downloaded here:
- http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#xzutils
- 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
- The following linker error has been reported on some x86 systems:
- ld: fatal: relocation error: R_386_GOTOFF: ...
- This can be worked around by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no
- as an argument to the configure script.
- test_scripts.sh in "make check" may fail if good enough tools are
- missing from PATH (/usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/xpg6/bin). Nowadays
- /usr/xpg4/bin is added to the script PATH by default on Solaris
- (see --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX in section 2), but old xz
- releases needed extra steps. See sections 5.5 and 3.2 for more
- information.
- 1.2.6. Tru64
- If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to
- configure), you may need the workaround mention in section 5.1 in
- this file (pass also ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= to configure).
- 1.2.7. Windows
- If it is enough to build liblzma (no command line tools):
- - There is CMake support. It should be good enough to build
- static liblzma or liblzma.dll with Visual Studio. The CMake
- support may work with MinGW or MinGW-w64. Read the comment
- in the beginning of CMakeLists.txt before running CMake!
- - There are Visual Studio project files under the "windows"
- directory. See windows/INSTALL-MSVC.txt. In the future the
- project files will be removed when CMake support is good
- enough. Thus, please test the CMake version and help fix
- possible issues.
- To build also the command line tools:
- - MinGW-w64 + MSYS (32-bit and 64-bit x86): This is used
- for building the official binary packages for Windows.
- There is windows/build.bash to ease packaging XZ Utils with
- MinGW(-w64) + MSYS into a redistributable .zip or .7z file.
- See windows/INSTALL-MinGW.txt for more information.
- - MinGW + MSYS (32-bit x86): I haven't recently tested this.
- - Cygwin 1.7.35 and later: NOTE that using XZ Utils >= 5.2.0
- under Cygwin older than 1.7.35 can lead to DATA LOSS! If
- you must use an old Cygwin version, stick to XZ Utils 5.0.x
- which is safe under older Cygwin versions. You can check
- the Cygwin version with the command "cygcheck -V".
- It may be possible to build liblzma with other toolchains too, but
- that will probably require writing a separate makefile. Building
- the command line tools with non-GNU toolchains will be harder than
- building only liblzma.
- Even if liblzma is built with MinGW(-w64), the resulting DLL can
- be used by other compilers and linkers, including MSVC. See
- windows/README-Windows.txt for details.
- 1.2.8. DOS
- There is a Makefile in the "dos" directory to build XZ Utils on
- DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is needed at
- build time but the resulting xz.exe works without LFN support too.
- See dos/INSTALL.txt and dos/README.txt for more information.
- 1.2.9. z/OS
- To build XZ Utils on z/OS UNIX System Services using xlc, pass
- these options to the configure script: CC='xlc -qhaltonmsg=CCN3296'
- CPPFLAS='-D_UNIX03_THREADS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600'. The first makes
- xlc throw an error if a header file is missing, which is required
- to make the tests in configure work. The CPPFLAGS are needed to
- get pthread support (some other CPPFLAGS may work too; if there
- are problems, try -D_UNIX95_THREADS instead of -D_UNIX03_THREADS).
- test_scripts.sh in "make check" will fail even if the scripts
- actually work because the test data includes compressed files
- with US-ASCII text.
- No other tests should fail. If test_files.sh fails, check that
- the included .xz test files weren't affected by EBCDIC conversion.
- XZ Utils doesn't have code to detect the amount of physical RAM and
- number of CPU cores on z/OS.
- 1.3. Adding support for new platforms
- If you have written patches to make XZ Utils to work on previously
- unsupported platform, please send the patches to me! I will consider
- including them to the official version. It's nice to minimize the
- need of third-party patching.
- One exception: Don't request or send patches to change the whole
- source package to C89. I find C99 substantially nicer to write and
- maintain. However, the public library headers must be in C89 to
- avoid frustrating those who maintain programs, which are strictly
- in C89 or C++.
- 2. configure options
- --------------------
- In most cases, the defaults are what you want. Many of the options
- below are useful only when building a size-optimized version of
- liblzma or command line tools.
- --enable-encoders=LIST
- --disable-encoders
- Specify a comma-separated LIST of filter encoders to
- build. See "./configure --help" for exact list of
- available filter encoders. The default is to build all
- supported encoders.
- If LIST is empty or --disable-encoders is used, no filter
- encoders will be built and also the code shared between
- encoders will be omitted.
- Disabling encoders will remove some symbols from the
- liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when it
- is known to not cause problems.
- --enable-decoders=LIST
- --disable-decoders
- This is like --enable-encoders but for decoders. The
- default is to build all supported decoders.
- --enable-match-finders=LIST
- liblzma includes two categories of match finders:
- hash chains and binary trees. Hash chains (hc3 and hc4)
- are quite fast but they don't provide the best compression
- ratio. Binary trees (bt2, bt3 and bt4) give excellent
- compression ratio, but they are slower and need more
- memory than hash chains.
- You need to enable at least one match finder to build the
- LZMA1 or LZMA2 filter encoders. Usually hash chains are
- used only in the fast mode, while binary trees are used to
- when the best compression ratio is wanted.
- The default is to build all the match finders if LZMA1
- or LZMA2 filter encoders are being built.
- --enable-checks=LIST
- liblzma support multiple integrity checks. CRC32 is
- mandatory, and cannot be omitted. See "./configure --help"
- for exact list of available integrity check types.
- liblzma and the command line tools can decompress files
- which use unsupported integrity check type, but naturally
- the file integrity cannot be verified in that case.
- Disabling integrity checks may remove some symbols from
- the liblzma ABI, so this option should be used only when
- it is known to not cause problems.
- --enable-external-sha256
- Try to use SHA-256 code from the operating system libc
- or similar base system libraries. This doesn't try to
- use OpenSSL or libgcrypt or such libraries.
- The reasons to use this option:
- - It makes liblzma slightly smaller.
- - It might improve SHA-256 speed if the implementation
- in the operating is very good (but see below).
- External SHA-256 is disabled by default for two reasons:
- - On some operating systems the symbol names of the
- SHA-256 functions conflict with OpenSSL's libcrypto.
- This causes weird problems such as decompression
- errors if an application is linked against both
- liblzma and libcrypto. This problem affects at least
- FreeBSD 10 and older and MINIX 3.3.0 and older, but
- other OSes that provide a function "SHA256_Init" might
- also be affected. FreeBSD 11 has the problem fixed.
- NetBSD had the problem but it was fixed it in 2009
- already. OpenBSD uses "SHA256Init" and thus never had
- a conflict with libcrypto.
- - The SHA-256 code in liblzma is faster than the SHA-256
- code provided by some operating systems. If you are
- curious, build two copies of xz (internal and external
- SHA-256) and compare the decompression (xz --test)
- times:
- dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1024 \
- | xz -v -0 -Csha256 > foo.xz
- time xz --test foo.xz
- --disable-microlzma
- Don't build MicroLZMA encoder and decoder. This omits
- lzma_microlzma_encoder() and lzma_microlzma_decoder()
- API functions from liblzma. These functions are needed
- by specific applications only. They were written for
- erofs-utils but they may be used by others too.
- --disable-lzip-decoder
- Disable decompression support for .lz (lzip) files.
- This omits the API function lzma_lzip_decoder() from
- liblzma and .lz support from the xz tool.
- --disable-xz
- --disable-xzdec
- --disable-lzmadec
- --disable-lzmainfo
- Don't build and install the command line tool mentioned
- in the option name.
- NOTE: Disabling xz will skip some tests in "make check".
- NOTE: If xzdec is disabled and lzmadec is left enabled,
- a dangling man page symlink lzmadec.1 -> xzdec.1 is
- created.
- --disable-lzma-links
- Don't create symlinks for LZMA Utils compatibility.
- This includes lzma, unlzma, and lzcat. If scripts are
- installed, also lzdiff, lzcmp, lzgrep, lzegrep, lzfgrep,
- lzmore, and lzless will be omitted if this option is used.
- --disable-scripts
- Don't install the scripts xzdiff, xzgrep, xzmore, xzless,
- and their symlinks.
- --disable-doc
- Don't install the documentation files to $docdir
- (often /usr/doc/xz or /usr/local/doc/xz). Man pages
- will still be installed. The $docdir can be changed
- with --docdir=DIR.
- --disable-assembler
- liblzma includes some assembler optimizations. Currently
- there is only assembler code for CRC32 and CRC64 for
- 32-bit x86.
- All the assembler code in liblzma is position-independent
- code, which is suitable for use in shared libraries and
- position-independent executables. So far only i386
- instructions are used, but the code is optimized for i686
- class CPUs. If you are compiling liblzma exclusively for
- pre-i686 systems, you may want to disable the assembler
- code.
- --disable-clmul-crc
- Disable the use carryless multiplication for CRC
- calculation even if compiler support for it is detected.
- The code uses runtime detection of SSSE3, SSE4.1, and
- CLMUL instructions on x86. On 32-bit x86 this currently
- is used only if --disable-assembler is used (this might
- be fixed in the future). The code works on E2K too.
- If using compiler options that unconditionally allow the
- required extensions (-msse4.1 -mpclmul) then runtime
- detection isn't used and the generic code is omitted.
- --enable-unaligned-access
- Allow liblzma to use unaligned memory access for 16-bit,
- 32-bit, and 64-bit loads and stores. This should be
- enabled only when the hardware supports this, that is,
- when unaligned access is fast. Some operating system
- kernels emulate unaligned access, which is extremely
- slow. This option shouldn't be used on systems that
- rely on such emulation.
- Unaligned access is enabled by default on x86, x86-64,
- big endian PowerPC, some ARM, and some ARM64 systems.
- --enable-unsafe-type-punning
- This enables use of code like
- uint8_t *buf8 = ...;
- *(uint32_t *)buf8 = ...;
- which violates strict aliasing rules and may result
- in broken code. There should be no need to use this
- option with recent GCC or Clang versions on any
- arch as just as fast code can be generated in a safe
- way too (using __builtin_assume_aligned + memcpy).
- However, this option might improve performance in some
- other cases, especially with old compilers (for example,
- GCC 3 and early 4.x on x86, GCC < 6 on ARMv6 and ARMv7).
- --enable-small
- Reduce the size of liblzma by selecting smaller but
- semantically equivalent version of some functions, and
- omit precomputed lookup tables. This option tends to
- make liblzma slightly slower.
- Note that while omitting the precomputed tables makes
- liblzma smaller on disk, the tables are still needed at
- run time, and need to be computed at startup. This also
- means that the RAM holding the tables won't be shared
- between applications linked against shared liblzma.
- This option doesn't modify CFLAGS to tell the compiler
- to optimize for size. You need to add -Os or equivalent
- flag(s) to CFLAGS manually.
- --enable-assume-ram=SIZE
- On the most common operating systems, XZ Utils is able to
- detect the amount of physical memory on the system. This
- information is used by the options --memlimit-compress,
- --memlimit-decompress, and --memlimit when setting the
- limit to a percentage of total RAM.
- On some systems, there is no code to detect the amount of
- RAM though. Using --enable-assume-ram one can set how much
- memory to assume on these systems. SIZE is given as MiB.
- The default is 128 MiB.
- Feel free to send patches to add support for detecting
- the amount of RAM on the operating system you use. See
- src/common/tuklib_physmem.c for details.
- --enable-threads=METHOD
- Threading support is enabled by default so normally there
- is no need to specify this option.
- Supported values for METHOD:
- yes Autodetect the threading method. If none
- is found, configure will give an error.
- posix Use POSIX pthreads. This is the default
- except on Windows outside Cygwin.
- win95 Use Windows 95 compatible threads. This
- is compatible with Windows XP and later
- too. This is the default for 32-bit x86
- Windows builds. Unless the compiler
- supports __attribute__((__constructor__)),
- the `win95' threading is incompatible with
- --enable-small.
- vista Use Windows Vista compatible threads. The
- resulting binaries won't run on Windows XP
- or older. This is the default for Windows
- excluding 32-bit x86 builds (that is, on
- x86-64 the default is `vista').
- no Disable threading support. This is the
- same as using --disable-threads.
- NOTE: If combined with --enable-small
- and the compiler doesn't support
- __attribute__((__constructor__)), the
- resulting liblzma won't be thread safe,
- that is, if a multi-threaded application
- calls any liblzma functions from more than
- one thread, something bad may happen.
- --enable-sandbox=METHOD
- There is limited sandboxing support in the xz tool. If
- built with sandbox support, it's used automatically when
- (de)compressing exactly one file to standard output and
- the options --files or --files0 weren't used. This is a
- common use case, for example, (de)compressing .tar.xz
- files via GNU tar. The sandbox is also used for
- single-file `xz --test' or `xz --list'.
- Supported METHODs:
- auto Look for a supported sandboxing method
- and use it if found. If no method is
- found, then sandboxing isn't used.
- This is the default.
- no Disable sandboxing support.
- capsicum
- Use Capsicum (FreeBSD >= 10) for
- sandboxing. If no Capsicum support
- is found, configure will give an error.
- pledge Use pledge(2) (OpenBSD >= 5.9) for
- sandboxing. If pledge(2) isn't found,
- configure will give an error.
- --enable-symbol-versions
- Use symbol versioning for liblzma. This is enabled by
- default on GNU/Linux, other GNU-based systems, and
- FreeBSD.
- --enable-debug
- This enables the assert() macro and possibly some other
- run-time consistency checks. It makes the code slower, so
- you normally don't want to have this enabled.
- --enable-werror
- If building with GCC, make all compiler warnings an error,
- that abort the compilation. This may help catching bugs,
- and should work on most systems. This has no effect on the
- resulting binaries.
- --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX
- If PREFIX isn't empty, PATH=PREFIX:$PATH will be set in
- the beginning of the scripts (xzgrep and others).
- The default is empty except on Solaris the default is
- /usr/xpg4/bin.
- This can be useful if the default PATH doesn't contain
- modern POSIX tools (as can be the case on Solaris) or if
- one wants to ensure that the correct xz binary is in the
- PATH for the scripts. Note that the latter use can break
- "make check" if the prefixed PATH causes a wrong xz binary
- (other than the one that was just built) to be used.
- Older xz releases support a different method for setting
- the PATH for the scripts. It is described in section 3.2
- and is supported in this xz version too.
- 2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
- On 32-bit x86, linking against static liblzma can give a minor
- speed improvement. Static libraries on x86 are usually compiled as
- position-dependent code (non-PIC) and shared libraries are built as
- position-independent code (PIC). PIC wastes one register, which can
- make the code slightly slower compared to a non-PIC version. (Note
- that this doesn't apply to x86-64.)
- If you want to link xz against static liblzma, the simplest way
- is to pass --disable-shared to configure. If you want also shared
- liblzma, run configure again and run "make install" only for
- src/liblzma.
- 2.2. Optimizing xzdec and lzmadec
- xzdec and lzmadec are intended to be relatively small instead of
- optimizing for the best speed. Thus, it is a good idea to build
- xzdec and lzmadec separately:
- - To link the tools against static liblzma, pass --disable-shared
- to configure.
- - To select somewhat size-optimized variant of some things in
- liblzma, pass --enable-small to configure.
- - Tell the compiler to optimize for size instead of speed.
- For example, with GCC, put -Os into CFLAGS.
- - xzdec and lzmadec will never use multithreading capabilities of
- liblzma. You can avoid dependency on libpthread by passing
- --disable-threads to configure.
- - There are and will be no translated messages for xzdec and
- lzmadec, so it is fine to pass also --disable-nls to configure.
- - Only decoder code is needed, so you can speed up the build
- slightly by passing --disable-encoders to configure. This
- shouldn't affect the final size of the executables though,
- because the linker is able to omit the encoder code anyway.
- If you have no use for xzdec or lzmadec, you can disable them with
- --disable-xzdec and --disable-lzmadec.
- 3. xzgrep and other scripts
- ---------------------------
- 3.1. Dependencies
- POSIX shell (sh) and bunch of other standard POSIX tools are required
- to run the scripts. The configure script tries to find a POSIX
- compliant sh, but if it fails, you can force the shell by passing
- gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
- script.
- xzdiff (xzcmp/lzdiff/lzcmp) may use mktemp if it is available. As
- a fallback xzdiff will use mkdir to securely create a temporary
- directory. Having mktemp available is still recommended since the
- mkdir fallback method isn't as robust as mktemp is. The original
- mktemp can be found from <https://www.mktemp.org/>. On GNU, most will
- use the mktemp program from GNU coreutils instead of the original
- implementation. Both mktemp versions are fine.
- In addition to using xz to decompress .xz files, xzgrep and xzdiff
- use gzip, bzip2, and lzop to support .gz, bz2, and .lzo files.
- 3.2. PATH
- The method described below is supported by older xz releases.
- It is supported by the current version too, but the newer
- --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX described in section 2 may be
- more convenient.
- The scripts assume that the required tools (standard POSIX utilities,
- mktemp, and xz) are in PATH; the scripts don't set the PATH themselves
- (except as described for --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX). Some
- people like this while some think this is a bug. Those in the latter
- group can easily patch the scripts before running the configure script
- by taking advantage of a placeholder line in the scripts.
- For example, to make the scripts prefix /usr/bin:/bin to PATH:
- perl -pi -e 's|^#SET_PATH.*$|PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:\$PATH|' \
- src/scripts/xz*.in
- 4. Tests
- --------
- The test framework can be built and run by executing "make check" in
- the build directory. The tests are a mix of executables and POSIX
- shell scripts (sh). All tests should pass if the default configuration
- is used. Disabling features through the configure options may cause
- some tests to be skipped. If any tests do not pass, see section 5.5.
- 4.1. Testing in parallel
- The tests can be run in parallel using the "-j" make option on systems
- that support it. For instance, "make -j4 check" will run up to four
- tests simultaneously.
- 4.2. Cross compiling
- The tests can be built without running them:
- make check TESTS=
- The TESTS variable is the list of tests you wish to run. Leaving it
- empty will compile the tests without running any.
- If the tests are copied to a target machine to execute, the test data
- files in the directory tests/files must also be copied. The tests
- search for the data files using the environment variable $srcdir,
- expecting to find the data files under $srcdir/files/. If $srcdir
- isn't set then it defaults to the current directory.
- The shell script tests can be copied from the source directory to the
- target machine to execute. In addition to the test files, these tests
- will expect the following relative file paths to execute properly:
- ./create_compress_files
- ../config.h
- ../src/xz/xz
- ../src/xzdec/xzdec
- ../src/scripts/xzdiff
- ../src/scripts/xzgrep
- 5. Troubleshooting
- ------------------
- 5.1. "No C99 compiler was found."
- You need a C99 compiler to build XZ Utils. If the configure script
- cannot find a C99 compiler and you think you have such a compiler
- installed, set the compiler command by passing CC=/path/to/c99 as
- an argument to the configure script.
- If you get this error even when you think your compiler supports C99,
- you can override the test by passing ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= as an argument
- to the configure script. The test for C99 compiler is not perfect (and
- it is not as easy to make it perfect as it sounds), so sometimes this
- may be needed. You will get a compile error if your compiler doesn't
- support enough C99.
- 5.2. "No POSIX conforming shell (sh) was found."
- xzgrep and other scripts need a shell that (roughly) conforms
- to POSIX. The configure script tries to find such a shell. If
- it fails, you can force the shell to be used by passing
- gl_cv_posix_shell=/path/to/posix-sh as an argument to the configure
- script. Alternatively you can omit the installation of scripts and
- this error by passing --disable-scripts to configure.
- 5.3. configure works but build fails at crc32_x86.S
- The easy fix is to pass --disable-assembler to the configure script.
- The configure script determines if assembler code can be used by
- looking at the configure triplet; there is currently no check if
- the assembler code can actually actually be built. The x86 assembler
- code should work on x86 GNU/Linux, *BSDs, Solaris, Darwin, MinGW,
- Cygwin, and DJGPP. On other x86 systems, there may be problems and
- the assembler code may need to be disabled with the configure option.
- If you get this error when building for x86-64, you have specified or
- the configure script has misguessed your architecture. Pass the
- correct configure triplet using the --build=CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM option
- (see INSTALL.generic).
- 5.4. Lots of warnings about symbol visibility
- On some systems where symbol visibility isn't supported, GCC may
- still accept the visibility options and attributes, which will make
- configure think that visibility is supported. This will result in
- many compiler warnings. You can avoid the warnings by forcing the
- visibility support off by passing gl_cv_cc_visibility=no as an
- argument to the configure script. This has no effect on the
- resulting binaries, but fewer warnings looks nicer and may allow
- using --enable-werror.
- 5.5. "make check" fails
- If the other tests pass but test_scripts.sh fails, then the problem
- is in the scripts in src/scripts. Comparing the contents of
- tests/xzgrep_test_output to tests/xzgrep_expected_output might
- give a good idea about problems in xzgrep. One possibility is that
- some tools are missing from the current PATH or the tools lack
- support for some POSIX features. This can happen at least on
- Solaris where the tools in /bin may be ancient but good enough
- tools are available in /usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/xpg6/bin. For possible
- fixes, see --enable-path-for-scripts=PREFIX in section 2 and the
- older alternative method described in section 3.2 of this file.
- If tests other than test_scripts.sh fail, a likely reason is that
- libtool links the test programs against an installed version of
- liblzma instead of the version that was just built. This is
- obviously a bug which seems to happen on some platforms.
- A workaround is to uninstall the old liblzma versions first.
- If the problem isn't any of those described above, then it's likely
- a bug in XZ Utils or in the compiler. See the platform-specific
- notes in this file for possible known problems. Please report
- a bug if you cannot solve the problem. See README for contact
- information.
- 5.6. liblzma.so (or similar) not found when running xz
- If you installed the package with "make install" and get an error
- about liblzma.so (or a similarly named file) being missing, try
- running "ldconfig" to update the run-time linker cache (if your
- operating system has such a command).
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