[Lzip-bug] [lzip] lzip-1.2-pre1: make install (install-info) and benchmarks

[Sedat Dilek]

Hi,

currently I am testing alternatives of file compressors, e.g. lbzip2,
lzma and of course lzip.

Can you please describe the differences between lzma and lzip?
Advantages?

Here some benchmarkings/statistics:

address@hidden:~/src$ time tar --use-compress-program=lbzip2 -cf
wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.bz2 wireless-testing

real    1m52.223s
user    3m24.125s
sys     0m7.515s
address@hidden:~/src$ time tar --use-compress-program=lzip -cf
wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.lz wireless-testing

real    18m59.918s
user    18m38.274s
sys     0m3.643s

address@hidden:~/src$ ls -l wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 400309182 2008-12-03 05:24
wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 sd sd 382861232 2008-12-03 05:43
wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.lz

address@hidden:~/src$ du -h wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.*
383M    wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.bz2
366M    wireless-testing_git20081203.1cfdbce.tar.lz

address@hidden:~/src$ lbzip2 -h
lbzip2: Parallel bzip2 filter.
Copyright (C) 2008 Laszlo Ersek. Released under the GNU GPLv2+.
Version 0.07.
[...]

address@hidden:~/src$ lzip --version
Lzip 1.2-pre1
Copyright (C) 2008 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

BTW, there is a problem while building lzip-1.2-pre1and installing via
'make install' (error-message see below).
Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,
Sedat

address@hidden:/home/sd/src/lzip-1.2-pre1# make install
if test ! -d /usr/local/share/info ; then install -d /usr/local/share/info ; fi
install -p -m 644 ./doc/lzip.info /usr/local/share/info/lzip.info
install-info /usr/local/share/info/lzip.info /usr/local/share/info/dir
install-info(/usr/local/share/info/lzip.info): too many arguments
Usage: install-info [<options> ...] [--] <filename>

Options:
  --section <regexp> <title>
                           put the new entry in the <regex> matched section
                           or create a new one with <title> if non-existent.
  --menuentry=<text>       set the menu entry.
  --description=<text>     set the description to be used in the menu entry.
  --info-file=<path>       specify info file to install in the directory.
  --dir-file=<path>        specify file name of info directory file.
  --infodir=<directory>    same as '--dir-file=<directory>/dir'.
  --info-dir=<directory>   likewise.
  --keep-old               do not replace entries nor remove empty ones.
  --remove                 remove the entry specified by <filename> basename.
  --remove-exactly         remove the exact <filename> entry.
  --test                   enables test mode (no actions taken).
  --debug                  enables debug mode (show more information).
  --quiet                  do not show output messages.
  --help                   show this help message.
  --version                show the version.
make: [install-info] Error 1 (ignored)
if test ! -d /usr/local/bin ; then install -d /usr/local/bin ; fi
install -p -m 755 ./lzip /usr/local/bin/lzip