BZIP2 in 1.4.8

[John W. Moore III]

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I have a Correspondent who has built 1.4.8 from the tar.gz for use on
Ubuntu.  For some reason the Build, even after passing all 27 tests
does not list BZIP2 as an available for of compression.:-\ Since
the PK is distributed with BZIP2 in the Preference string this has
resulted in receiving messages which cannot be decrypted.:(

The tar ball was downloaded from the gnu.org Site and the checksum
verified.

I have been building from the SVN commits and BZIP2 is available but I
was wondering if it had been dropped for some reason in the 'Official
Release'?

If BZIP2 has been omitted from the Release then there are a lot of
folks who have this compression method listed in their Keys and even
more who have it set in their 'personal-compress-preferences' string.

I see the Options for --bzip2-compress-level n 
- --bzip2-decompress-lowmem in the 1.4.8 Manual.  How  when are they
supposed to be utilized to compensate for the lack of BZIP2?

Which file should I advise Her to add to Her Build?

It is good to see the Server back Online again. :-D

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Thursday 27 Dec 2007, 23:46  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Re: BZIP2 in 1.4.8

[Robert J. Hansen]

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John W. Moore III wrote:
 I have a Correspondent who has built 1.4.8 from the tar.gz for use on
 Ubuntu.

First, I can't recreate this (on Gutsy Gibbon/x86_64).  Probably because
I have libbz2-dev installed; see below.

Second, Ubuntu ships with 1.4.6.  It's a little bit old, but
serviceable, and Ubuntu is tracking upstream security bugfixes.  If your
correspondent is just interested in security fixes, tell him/her to use
the Ubuntu-supplied GnuPG.

Third, most Linux distros (including Ubuntu) separate files into two
different groups: the files you need to run programs that need a certain
feature, and the files you need to compile programs that need a certain
feature.

With bz2 the package libbz2-1.0 contains what you need to run programs
that use bz2; the package libbz2-dev contains what you need to compile
programs that use bz2.

I would suggest the following course of action:

1.  sudo apt-get update
2.  sudo apt-get upgrade
3.  sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

Then try to recompile GnuPG 1.4.8 and see if that fixes the problem.

(Normally I don't sign my mailing group posts here.  Given that I'm
giving sudo commands, though, I think this time it's probably appropriate.)


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