pbzip2 isn't faster

[Eric A. Borisch]

 On Friday, April 4, 2014, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:26, Eric A. Borisch <eborisch at macports.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > I have a (manually installed, linked against system libs) pbzip2 in
> /usr/local/bin/pbzip2. I configure macports (on install) with './configure
> BZIP2=/usr/local/bin/pbzip2'
>
> This is precisely what I was interested in. Have you been using this
> configuration for long? Any problems? I set up something similar, but with
> pbzip2 installed from MacPorts, and I did have pbzip2 crash once. I'll have
> to try it for longer and see how reliable it is.


I've had no issues with this config for years.

Obviously the problem with using pbzip2 from MacPorts is that everything
> would break if pbzip2 were ever deactivated, including if it were ever
> upgraded.
>
> Since the MacPorts build system now accommodates adding third-party
> software into the build, if pbzip2 works reliably, it might be nice to
> include it with MacPorts and use it at least for compression and
> decompression of the archives, if not also for bzip2 distfiles and
> patchfiles.
>

I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with
bzip2.

  - Eric
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