On Dec 31, 2011, at 8:20 AM, jma...@wireshark.org wrote:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=40352
>
> User: jmayer
> Date: 2011/12/31 08:20 AM
>
> Log:
> - Update the graphical packages
> - Newer versions of glib etc require xz. At least Snow Leopard
> does not provide xz, so (unconditionally) download and install this first.
Require it to build - i.e., GLib now uses APIs from liblzma - or only require
it to decompress the source tarball? It looks as if GLib 2.28.8:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.28/
has both .xz-compressed and .bz2-compressed tarballs, whereas earlier releases
had both .gz-compressed and .bz2-compressed tarballs.
If it's only needed to decompress .xz-compressed tarballs, we could use the
.bz2-compressed tarballs, instead; Mac OS X does come with bzip2, so we
wouldn't need to install anything.
On the other hand, xz seems to compress a lot tighter than bzip2:
glib-2.29.92.tar.bz2 18-Sep-2011 16:38 7.2M
glib-2.29.92.tar.xz 18-Sep-2011 16:38 5.4M
so if xz can be quickly downloaded and installed, that might save enough time
on the subsequent downloads to make it worthwhile.
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