kernel 2.26.30 allows compression with gz, bz2 and lzma gzip and bzip2 are fine with the installed tools. lzma is missing in the book.
first i downloaded the "original" lzma sdk mentionned on www.7-zip.org but had no success. next i tried http://tukaani.org/lzma i took the current source lzma-4.32.7.tar.gz and used my standard configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install to be complete, i tried the xz-4.99.8beta.tar.gz from tukaani too. http://tukaani.org/xz same procedure as with lzma and that's it. just get the right lzma tool... my current kernel-sizes: gzip 1913696 bzip2 1820944 lzma 1605712 lzma from both packages result in the same size. even as the xz is stil beta, i propose to include the xz and not lzma in the book to be able to compress the kernel with any method the user wishes. (alphabetically after Vim as no dependecies exist) maybe the tool can be marked as "optional, only required to compress the kernel with lzma". support for lzma in tar is with --lzma, for xz with -J (which used to be lzma for a while...) tobias -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
