libarchive-3.8.7

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r13.0-791

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# libarchive-3.8.7

## Introduction to libarchive

The libarchive library provides a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/download/v3.8.7/libarchive-3.8.7.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: dd48e73d519e309ce08ce76a004fb0e0

- Download size: 5.8 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 86 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (add 0.3 SBU for tests)

### libarchive Dependencies

#### Optional

libxml2-2.15.3, LZO-2.10, and Nettle-4.0

## Installation of libarchive

Install libarchive by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check as a non-`root` user.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

Still as the `root` user, create a symlink so we can use bsdunzip as unzip, instead of relying on the unmaintained Unzip package:

    ln -sfv bsdunzip /usr/bin/unzip

### Note

As discussed in Wrong Filename Encoding, if the Zip archive to be extracted contains any file with a name containing any non-Latin characters, you need to manually specify the encoding of those characters or they will be turned into unreadable sequences in the extracted file name. For example, if a Zip archive created with WinZip, `archive.zip`, contains a file named with Simplified Chinese characters, the encoding should be CP936 and the `-I cp936` option should be used. I.e. the command to extract the archive should be unzip -I cp936 archive.zip.

## Command Explanations

`--disable-static`: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

`--without-xml2`: This switch uses expat for xar archive format support instead of libxml2 (which is preferred) if both packages are installed.

`--with-nettle`: This switch uses Nettle for crypto support instead of OpenSSL. This support is known to be broken upstream due to Nettle-4.0.

## Contents

Installed Programs: bsdcat, bsdcpio, bsdtar, bsdunzip, and unzip (symlink to bsdunzip)
Installed Libraries: libarchive.so
Installed Directories: None

### Short Descriptions

bsdcat | expands files to standard output
bsdcpio | is a tool similar to cpio
bsdtar | is a tool similar to GNU tar
bsdunzip | is a tool similar to Info-ZIP unzip
`libarchive.so` | is a library that can create and read several streaming archive formats

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