Re: Looking for pointers how to set up lzma stream using xz-devel

[John Reiser <jreiser bitwagon com>]

On 01/04/2010 10:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:57:54 -0600,
>    Jon Ciesla<limb jcomserv net>  wrote:
> > I've actually come across this WRT UPX as well.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501636

> It seemed odd that the debian bug for this claimed that source from the SDK
> was needed. Presumably an appropriate library would work.  ...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501636#c6
UPX cannot use a library, UPX must use source.  UPX requires total control
during decompression (no malloc() allowed, etc.) and so far the library
writers have not catered to such a restricted environment, AFAICT.

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