[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] package: add generic support for lz archives

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:25:55 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > BR2_LZCAT does not specify only the path to the lzcat program, but also
> > its options. And we completely ignore those custom options if the
> > lzcat built by Buildroot is used.  
> 
>  It is possible to provide extra options, but these are completely useless.
> Well, actually, lzcat is the first one with an option that could be useful:
> --threads, to decompress over several cores. Except that --threads isn't
> implemented yet for decompression. So, although it is possible to add extra
> options in BR2_LZCAT, it just makes no sense.

My point is not whether it makes sense or not to be able to pass
options to lzip. My point is that we provide a Config.in option to
allow the user to pass additional options, but we don't actually take
into account the value of this option when we build our own host-lzip or
host-xz.

Thomas
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