Zirconium Linux From Scratch - Version r12.4-45-systemd

Chapter 5. Installing Basic System Software

Libarchive-3.8.1

The libarchive library provides a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats.

Approximate build time: 0.3 SBU (add 0.8 SBU for tests)
Required disk space: 43 MB (add 32 MB for tests)
SHA256 Checksum: 19f917d42d530f98815ac824d90c7eaf648e9d9a50e4f309c812457ffa5496b5

Installation of libarchive

Install libarchive by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
        --without-xml2

Compile the package:

make

Install the package and remove some harmful libtool archive and static library files:

make install
rm -v /usr/lib/libarchive.{a,la}
[Note]

Note

As discussed in locale-wrong-filename-encoding, if the Zip archive to be extracted contains any file with a name containing any non-Latin characters, you need to manually specify the encoding of those characters or they will be turned into unreadable sequences in the extracted file name. For example, if a Zip archive created with WinZip, archive.zip, contains a file named with Simplified Chinese characters, the encoding should be CP936 and the -I cp936 option should be used. I.e. the command to extract the archive should be unzip -I cp936 archive.zip.

Command Explanations

--without-xml2: This switch sets expat for xar archive format support instead of preferred libxml2 if both packages are installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: bsdcat, bsdcpio, bsdtar, and bsdunzip
Installed Libraries: libarchive.so
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

bsdcat

expands files to standard output

bsdcpio

is a tool similar to cpio

bsdtar

is a tool similar to GNU tar

bsdunzip

is a tool similar to Info-ZIP unzip

libarchive.so

is a library that can create and read several streaming archive formats