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2. Getting bzip2

Bzip2's home page is at The UK home site. The United States mirror site is here. You can also find it on Red Hat's ftp site here.

2.1 Getting bzip2 precompiled binaries

See the home sites. Red Hat's intel binary is here. Debian's is here, and Slackware's is here. You can also get these in the analogous places at the various mirror sites.

2.2 Getting bzip2 sources

They come from the Official sites (see Getting Bzip2 for where, or Red Hat has it here).

2.3 Compiling bzip2 for your machine

If you have gcc 2.7.2.3, change the line that reads

CFLAGS = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops

to

CFLAGS = -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops

that is, take out the -O3 part. After that, just make it and install it per the README.


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