Thank you! kcs
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:05 PM Todd Zullinger via Gnupg-users < gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: > K S via Gnupg-users wrote: > > It would be helpful to know why I can't get compression in my build. I've > > tried to build from source three times now. > > > > There are so many packages in Ubuntu with zip, zlib, and bzip2 in the > name > > I can't begin to try them all. I've looked at config.log and it doesn't > > give much help. > > The config.log should show some information about the > compression algorithms, likely found searching for "zip" in > the output. > > Building from source does require a bit of familiarity with > the system on which you are building. While you shouldn't > need to randomly try all the packages, knowing where to look > for ideas will help. > > I don't use Ubuntu or Debian, but if I were trying to build > gnupg from source I'd start by looking at what build > dependencies are required by the system packages. > > In the case of gnupg, you can see that in the debian/control > file: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnupg2/-/blob/7f5e9b1b/debian/control#L9-43 > > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/tree/debian/control#n10 > > You can install those build dependencies via something like: > > apt-get build-dep gnupg2 > > The debian/rules file is usually also interesting; seeing > what configure and make options are used can be helpful. > > Some of the dependencies for the current gnupg may be newer > than what is required by the gnupg2 package in Ubuntu and/or > provided by the OS. You may first need to build those newer > dependencies. > > If so, you need to be careful not to interfere with the OS > libraries which are used by other packages on the system. > It can get "interesting" trying to update something which is > quite a core dependency of the operating system. > > -- > Todd > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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