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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Sedat,

Sedat Dilek wrote:
> Can you please describe the differences between lzma and lzip?
> Advantages?

Both implement the same algorithm, so both have similar speed and 
compression ratio.

Lzip provides a much simpler and reliable implementation than lzma. Lzip 
also provides a simple but safe file format, with magic bytes and 
integrity checking. Lzma uses a format known as "lzma-alone", which 
lacks both. I hope everybody who cares about data safety will switch 
from the lzma-alone format to the lzip format as soon as they know about it.

You can find more detailed info in the list archives 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/


> Here some benchmarkings/statistics:

Thank you. As expected, lzip compresses better but is slower than bzip2.


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

This question is already answered here
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2008-11/msg00013.html
and here
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ocrad/2008-08/msg00001.html
and here
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ocrad/2005-11/msg00001.html
and posibly in some more places.

It seems Debian has its own version of install-info. I guess you'll have 
to ask Debian why they have developed a version of install-info 
incompatible with the one from GNU, given that "info" is the 
documentation format of the GNU system.

As this problem is frecuently reported and as the directory argument 
rejected by Debian's install-info is optional in GNU's install-info, 
I'll see if I can solve it in a compatible manner.


> Hope this helps.

Yes, thanks.


Best regards,
Antonio.