On Fri Dec 28 21:45:33 EST 2012, j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: > 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