Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: boot: support minigzip bzImage compression

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:47:38PM +0000, Boie, Andrew P wrote:
> > From: Guenter Roeck [linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Or just change the build system to have /bin/gzip point to minigzip if so
> > desired. I have done the same to replace it with pigz.
> > Debian/Ubuntu provides the update-alternatives command for that
> > purpose. If that is not available, just hard-link it.
> 
> Android minigzip and gzip unfortunately don't have the same command line syntax. Before I wrote this patch I had a horrible hack in place involving a shell script named "gzip" that called minigzip internally.
> 
Why is that a horrible hack ? I think it is better than clogging
kernel makefiles with that kind of tools detail. Actually, you have
(at least) three other options: fix/update gzip, update minigzip
to match the gzip cli, or use a script to map one to the other.

Guenter
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