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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2016-11-05 15:45:53 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2017-03-16 05:44:02 +0100
commitf6ac3101ff4427af6250daf645c853caba629b4c (patch)
tree18294ab6ee97e545f09eb9c933a4574996eff5e1 /gnu/packages/compression.scm
parent918621626875272a7de182a365847eb4d4b205eb (diff)
gnu: Add zstd.
* gnu/packages/compression.scm (zstd): New variable.
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@@ -1173,3 +1173,47 @@ or junctions, and always follows hard links.")
(description "Unrar is a simple command-line program to list and extract
RAR archives.")
(license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public zstd
+ (package
+ (name "zstd")
+ (version "1.1.3")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "https://github.com/facebook/zstd/archive/v"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "02mgk7cbyksfx7mq95cykghb7dya797z0n2jxr5fx9j0x0m56v0h"))
+ (modules '((guix build utils)))
+ (snippet
+ ;; Remove non-free source files.
+ '(begin
+ (for-each delete-file-recursively
+ (list
+ ;; Commercial use of the following is not allowed.
+ "examples"
+ "LICENSE-examples"))
+ #t))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ `(#:phases
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (delete 'configure)) ; no configure script
+ #:make-flags
+ (list "CC=gcc"
+ (string-append "PREFIX=" (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
+ #:test-target "test"))
+ (home-page "http://zstd.net/")
+ (synopsis "Zstandard real-time compression algorithm")
+ (description "Zstandard (@command{zstd}) is a lossless compression algorithm
+that combines very fast operation with a compression ratio comparable to that of
+zlib. In most scenarios, both compression and decompression can be performed in
+‘real time’. The compressor can be configured to provide the most suitable
+trade-off between compression ratio and speed, without affecting decompression
+speed.")
+ (license (list license:bsd-3 ; the main top-level LICENSE file
+ license:bsd-2 ; quite a few files have but 2 clauses
+ license:public-domain ; zlibWrapper/examples/fitblk*
+ license:zlib)))) ; zlibWrapper/{gz*.c,gzguts.h}